Lesotho gets Starlink

[Daniel Puchert]

Another neighbouring country gets Starlink before South Africa

Starlink has announced that its services are officially online in Lesotho, yet another African country and neighbour with access to the low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet before South Africa.

Starlink is a satellite broadband service run by Elon Musk's private space company, SpaceX, supported by a network of over 6,750 low-earth orbit satellites, which SpaceX has been launching in batches since 2019.

 

[Insint]

Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.

That joke cracks me up every time.

 

[konfab]

Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.

That joke cracks me up every time.

Game for everyone in this thread:
Go and drop a google maps pin in a random urban/semi-urban area of Lesotho, and look around.
You lose if you see either a shack, a pile of bricks or an unfinished building.
You win if you don't.

 

[dualmeister]

South African should get renamed to BEE Africa.

 

[Quicks]

BEE always come first and foremost. We don't need anything else they can go to India!

 

[Zarathustra]

Amazing what is possible when you don't have the cANCer!

 

[Brian_G]

Even those who don't care about Starlink should back it, stand up for freedom of choice in SA.

 

[wingnut771]

Does that mean we have a ground station now in sort of the middle of the country?

 

[Brian_G]

Does that mean we have a ground station now in sort of the middle of the country?

Nah, they turn off roamers (they're tracked) after a few weeks, unless they go back to the source country. And keep making new rules at the moment.

 

[RedViking]

Game for everyone in this thread:
Go and drop a google maps pin in a random urban/semi-urban area of Lesotho, and look around.
You lose if you see either a shack, a pile of bricks or an unfinished building.
You win if you don't.

Thanks to Apartheid

 

[wingnut771]

Nah, they turn off roamers (they're tracked) after a few weeks, unless they go back to the source country. And keep making new rules at the moment.

Oh ja, I forgot, they've cut us off.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937134708057346136

 

[rh1]

@epah what now? I knew you made a backdoor deal with Elon.

 

[3WA]

@epah what now? I knew you made a backdoor deal with Elon.

Damn @epah just wanted the old country to get Starlink before us.

 

[ShaunSA]

Let the Lesothonese celebrate. We will see who is celebrating when Eelawn's crap tech falls from the sky

 

[ToxicBunny]

Well now, this might just be the excuse I need to go up Sani pass every month or two for a beer and a quick chow.

 

[The Gilded]

Then go to Lesotho if you want Starlink so badly. Over there, they really need it but we don't as SA's Internet infrastructure is the best in the world, outside of Asia. America needs Starlink but we don't.

I admit that it is quite appealing to have Starlink and live near Victoria Falls and get paid in USD. I have considered living in Zimbabwe. It's peaceful and tranquil in Zimbabwe and if I had to emigrate, I would rather go there than Aus, NZ or the UK.

 

[The Gilded]

Let the Lesothonese celebrate. We will see who is celebrating when Eelawn's crap tech falls from the sky

Finally someone here gets it. There's no explaining this to the Musk fanboys.

 

[The Gilded]

Amazing what is possible when you don't have the cANCer!

Because Lesotho is such a powerhouse of a country? Do they produce anything besides blankets?

 

[wingnut771]

Then go to Lesotho if you want Starlink so badly. Over there, they really need it but we don't as SA's Internet infrastructure is the best in the world, outside of Asia. America needs Starlink but we don't.

I admit that it is quite appealing to have Starlink and live near Victoria Falls and get paid in USD. I have considered living in Zimbabwe. It's peaceful and tranquil in Zimbabwe and if I had to emigrate, I would rather go there than Aus, NZ or the UK.

Lol, have you seen the roads in Zim?