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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Starlink's Direct-to-Cell customers could go live this year

    Starlink's Direct-to-Cell customers could go live this year T-Mobile US Inc. may offer space-connected mobile devices to customers this year as its partnership with SpaceX bears fruit, the carrier’s leader said Thursday. Elon Musk’s SpaceX in early January launched the initial batch of...
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    Starlink tested in the Kruger National Park

    Starlink tested in the Kruger National Park MyBroadband tested SpaceX's uncapped satellite broadband service Starlink in the Kruger National Park over the December holidays and found it delivered excellent speeds. The Kruger is South Africa's biggest national park and one of the most...
  4. Jan

    SpaceX hiring Starlink growth manager for Sub-Saharan Africa

    SpaceX hiring manager to boost Starlink growth in Africa SpaceX is advertising a position for growth manager of its Starlink Internet service in Sub-Saharan Africa. The role — first reported by Space in Africa — is open for applications on the Greenhouse recruitment website.
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    SpaceX gets approval for second Starship launch

    SpaceX gets approval for second Starship launch SpaceX received approval for the second launch of its groundbreaking Starship rocket, ending an almost seven-month hiatus and inching Elon Musk closer to his goal of sending humans to the moon and beyond. The US Federal Aviation Administration...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Starsat Africa and IcasaSePush slash Starlink prices

    Starsat Africa and IcasaSePush slash Starlink prices Two Internet service providers (ISPs) that import and manage Starlink's service for South African customers have dramatically reduced the prices of their monthly subscriptions. Effective 1 December 2023, Mozambique-based StarSat Africa will...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals

    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them. Thousands of satellites have...
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    Starlink has reached cash breakeven — Elon Musk

    Starlink has reached cash breakeven — Elon Musk SpaceX’s Starlink service has reached breakeven cash flow, according to chief executive officer Elon Musk, a milestone for the space-based internet provider. Musk disclosed the achievement in a post Thursday on his social media platform, X...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Jumia partners with Starlink on African rollout

    Jumia partners with Starlink on African rollout Billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will partner with e-commerce firm Jumia Technologies AG to expand its satellite broadband services in Africa. Jumia, which counts Pernod Ricard SA and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    FAA proposes rules for cleaning up space junk

    FAA proposes rules for cleaning up space junk A new proposed rule would require commercial space companies to clean up some of their junk. The US Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday released a proposal to limit the uncontrolled reentry of a launch vehicle’s upper stage — the part of a...
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    SpaceX expanding offices to Europe

    SpaceX expanding offices to Europe SpaceX is set to open an office in Dublin in what would mark the first physical presence of the Elon Musk-founded space company in Europe, the British Sunday Times reported. [Bloomberg]
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    What Starlink must do to launch in SA

    What Starlink must do to launch in SA SpaceX can officially launch Starlink in South Africa without giving up 30% of its company to historically disadvantaged groups (HDGs). That is according to the Internet Service Providers Association of South Africa (ISPA).
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    Musk talked with Putin about Starlink concerns — Report

    Musk talked with Putin about Starlink concerns — Report Elon Musk told Pentagon officials during a call about the satellite-based Internet that SpaceX supplies to Ukraine’s military that he’d spoken personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New Yorker reported. Musk volunteered the...
  14. Jan

    Icasa orders IT Lec to stop selling Starlink and cut subscribers off

    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...
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  15. Jan

    Malawi gets Starlink - Fifth African country before South Africa

    Fifth African country gets Starlink before South Africa — for R891 per month Malawi recently became the fifth African country to officially support SpaceX's Starlink — while South Africa's estimated rollout for the service has remained "unknown". The fast and uncapped satellite Internet...
  16. Jan

    Affordable fixed wireless uncapped broadband for homes without fibre

    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...
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  17. Jan

    Loopholes to get Starlink in South Africa

    How to get Starlink in South Africa South Africans living in rural areas with no or poor uncapped broadband options can already use SpaceX's satellite Internet service Starlink. While not officially available in the country, Starlink works across most of South Africa thanks to its regional...
  18. Jan

    Minister says Starlink must comply with South Africa's 30% HDG ownership laws

    Starlink is welcome in South Africa — if it's 30% owned by black people, women, youth, or people with disabilities Communications minister Mondli Gungubele says it would not be possible to allow Starlink to officially operate in the country unless it met the country's Internet service provider...
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    Best way to get Starlink?

    I need to get reliable internet on the farm where my mother lives, so I want to get Starlink, as it seems to be both more reliable, especially during load shedding, and faster than LTE. Does anybody have experience getting Starlink with roaming to SA? Either personally, or through an ISP that...
  20. Jan

    Starlink Pilanesberg test

    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...
  21. Jan

    Mozambique gets Starlink before South Africa for R903 per month

    First South African neighbour gets Starlink — for R903 per month SpaceX's Starlink is now officially available in Mozambique, the first of South Africa's neighbours to start supporting the service. The Starlink website allows residents of the country to order their kit and have it shipped to...
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