Starlink
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s minister for communications and digitisation, has announced plans to licence satellite internet provider Starlink, less than one week after disruption to four subsea cables caused a major internet blackout in the country and across West and Central Africa.
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Starlink has unveiled a new community gateway product that it says allows local internet providers to distribute fibre-like speed connectivity to homes, businesses, and governments.
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Singtel will augment its maritime digital offerings with Starlink’s satellites to drive the adoption of digital solutions by ship owners and operators.
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BT and Elon Musk’s Starlink are in talks to cover rural parts of the UK with broadband and mobile services.
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TMobile has announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has launched the first Starlink satellites with direct to cell capabilities.
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Telecom services are slowly being restored to the Gaza strip after the most significant internet blackout since the conflict began occurred on Friday.
Forthcoming events
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A new webpage added to Starlink’s website has revealed that SMS services for its direct-to-cell solution will go live in 2024. Voice, data and IoT services will go live in 2025.
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Amazon’s low earth orbit satellite broadband initiative, Project Kuiper, launched two prototype satellites last Friday, marking the Starlink rivals first major mission.
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A Ukrainian official has slammed Elon Musk after claims emerged that the SpaceX owner ordered engineers to switch off Starlink satellites near Crimea to prevent a Ukrainian offensive on Russia.
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Service will be launched in 2024 and allow customers to send and receive SMS messages.
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Telefonica says it will join forces with Elon Musk-owned Starlink to provide connectivity to rural and remote customers.
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Starlink services were cut off by Musk during a planned drone strike, sparking fury from Ukrainian generals
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SC CapRock, the Brazilian subsidiary of Speedcast, through its long-term global agreement with Nokia to develop LTE private wireless networks, has inked a global agreement for the sale of Starlink’s corporate services.
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Telstra has unveiled a partnership with Starlink to deliver Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity for voice and fixed broadband services in remote and hard-to-reach places in Australia.
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After six month wait, Elon Musk’s satellite company adds another Central American market to its coverage.
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SpaceX’s Starlink is the fastest way to get broadband in eight European countries, but fixed broadband was faster in four more.
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SpaceX is strengthening its programme to introduce satellite-to-cellphones services by stepping up recruitment.
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Hurtigruten Expeditions, a cruise ship company that specialises in the Arctic and Antarctic, has fitted SpaceX’s Starlink on its fleet.
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Internet speed monitor Ookla has found that speeds from SpaceX’s broadband satellite service Starlink is slowing down.
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Australian wholesaler Speedcast has added SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to the service providers it uses for the enterprise and maritime markets.
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The first satellite to test mobile phone services from space is due for launch this weekend.
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Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Mobile US is to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to expand coverage across rural parts of the US – and SpaceX wants to attract other mobile operators around the world.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application for US$885 million in federal subsidies that would see it provide satellite internet to rural areas.
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Nigerian customers of SpaceX’s Starlink service will pay only US$99 for their starter kit, only a sixth of the $599 that US customers have to pay.
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Ofcom says it is pondering a move to allow satellite operators to access more spectrum in order to offer broadband services to hard-to-reach areas.
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Regulators in Nigeria and Mozambique have approved the start of broadband satellite services via Starlink, part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Africa, much of South America, and all of Asia are still on the waiting list for coverage for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellite service.
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The Philippines will be the first country in south-east Asia to be served by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, the government has announced.
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Elon Musk and his launch company SpaceX are rescuing OneWeb in a deal to launch the rest of the company’s satellites.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is giving consumers across Europe faster speeds than fixed broadband, according to Ookla.