Starsat Africa halting all services
An unauthorised Starlink reseller, which at one point claimed to have supplied around 12,000 South African customers with kits for the low-Earth orbit satellite service, is halting all services due to "ongoing market instability".
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Stop selling Starlink and cut customers off — Icasa's warning to South African ISP
South Africa's telecommunications regulator has demanded that a local Internet service provider (ISP) stop importing Starlink kits on behalf of its customers and cut them off from the satellite broadband service...
Cheapest 50Mbps uncapped Internet for homes without fibre
There are several uncapped wireless Internet packages on the market with at least 50Mbps download speeds for South African households that don't have a fibre network available in their area.
While fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity...
Starlink tested in the bushveld — 187Mbps when load-shedding kills mobile
South African households whose primary mobile broadband connection goes down during load-shedding or campers who want fast Internet in the bushveld might find investing in a Starlink kit worthwhile.
In the past few...
Starlink hands-on tested in South Africa — Great for streaming, gamers will have to wait
SpaceX's Starlink Internet service performs reasonably well in South Africa, even without official availability and when tested in a location with significant operational issues.
We recently got our hands...
This ISP sells Starlink in South Africa — here is how much it costs
Northern Cape-based Internet service provider IT LEC is reselling the Starlink satellite Internet service to South Africans for a monthly price of R1,799.
Although Starlink is not officially supported in South Africa, the...