A team of Facebook’s satellite internet employees joins Amazon as reported by The Information . Amazon paid Facebook an undisclosed sum as part of the acquisition, which saw more than a dozen Los Angeles-based employees switch companies in April to work on Project Kuiper. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the news to The Information.

The move brings an end to Facebook’s efforts to deliver internet connectivity to remote areas via its own satellites. When it confirmed the initiative in 2018 the company said that it believed the technology would make it possible “to bring broadband connectivity to rural regions where internet connectivity is lacking or non-existent.”

Meanwhile, Amazon’s ambitions to provide internet via satellite began in 2019 . The company has said it expects to invest $10 billion to launch 3,236 satellites into low-earth orbit by 2029 with a similar aim of providing internet to “unserved and underserved communities around the world.” The Information reports that Amazon is building a lab in Redmond, WA, and that it currently has around 500 employees working on its satellite internet project.

Amazon estimates that it will be able to provide internet connectivity to 95 percent of the world’s population through this initiative.  The FCC approved Amazon’s network plan last year, and the company plans to launch half of its satellites by 2026.

Amazon signed an agreement with rocket operator United Launch Alliance for nine satellite launches, but hasn’t yet said when they will materialize.

SpaceX has said it will launch almost 12,000 satellites into orbit in the name of internet connectivity. Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos confirmed that Project Kuiper will cost “multiple billions of dollars.” The product is separate from Blue Origin LLC, which is Bezos’ space launch vehicle maker.

The company said in its FCC filing that it will help serve communities in the U.S. “by offering fixed broadband communications services to rural and hard-to-reach areas.”

Amazon is one of a handful of tech companies attempting to use satellites to offer internet connectivity in parts of the world where it would be prohibitively expensive to install fixed infrastructure.