Starlink goes live in Zim

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Starlink goes live in Zim

SpaceX's fast and uncapped satellite Internet service Starlink has officially launched in Zimbabwe.

South Africa's northern neighbour is the 14th African country to get the service, with the most recent other additions being Botswana, South Sudan, and Sierra Leone.

 

[wingnut771]

Do any of these places have ground stations?

 

[Longboi]

Lekker BEE here.

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Do any of these places have ground stations?

Not when looking at the Starlink latency map: https://www.starlink.com/map?view=latency Still pretty good for space lasers

 

[Deandbn]

Lekker BEE here.

Its worse than that bee , I read that the govt here wants 30% kickback.. Thats the problem.. And musk must not cave in to the SA mafia.

 

[wingnut771]

Not when looking at the Starlink latency map: https://www.starlink.com/map?view=latency Still pretty good for space lasers

Why would Moz have lower latency than the rest?

 

[Longboi]

Why would Moz have lower latency than the rest?

They have the best witch doctors in Africa.

 

[Brian_G]

Why would Moz have lower latency than the rest?

Guess: It's not an exact-fit science, likely just got lucky with location and the orbital setup.

 

[oros]

Once again South Africa stays behind......

 

[Zurg]

Its worse than that bee , I read that the govt here wants 30% kickback.. Thats the problem.. And musk must not cave in to the SA mafia.

You really think he gives a $h!t if it goes live in SA? Handing over 30% might seem like nothing in the long run but the entire situation reaks of entitlement as if they're doing Starlink a favour. They must keep going with this kak mentality, people will eventually find a way around it.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Why would Moz have lower latency than the rest?

Seems to shift, now Eswatini is lowest.

Probably just an aggregate based on how many devices are online at any one time, and the less there are likely the lower.

 

[igeorge]

Once again South Africa stays behind......

Yes, but Epah says we don't need such colonial products. So all good

 

[neoprema]

Lekker BEE here.

I don't think its BEE. I think BEE is one of many spanners they're planning to throw.

Starlink is a risk to the likes of MTN, Vodacom, Cell-C etc and they all cozy up to cadres. Doesn't take much money to bribe a few to throw in spanners... we know corruption is rife.