Starlink has been launched in 20 African countries, with 26 more on the way before South Africa

Yoztruly said:
Is Starlink free? I ask because I see a lot of people talk about rural people missing out when they talk about it. Rural South Africa has no money for such. If they did, the fibre companies would have rolled out there by now.
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Rural people includes farm people and people in small villages who can afford it. I am in a rural / urban area. There are plenty of schools, b&b's, hotels, etc that are in rural areas that will benefit from this.
 
system32 said:
What's your statement based on?
Facts are that ANC's votes have declined over the last 30 years.

BEE racism not helping ANC get votes.
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Think deeper man. I didn't say helping them win, did I?

That's their motivation though, BEE will be increasing the numbers for them.
 
shadow_man said:
Look at it this way R1000 per month cost.

A village shares the cost @ R50 per household.

MUCH cheaper and faster / reliable than rural cellular data (which suffers from rampant loadshedding).

It's not a 1:1 cost ratio.
It's already being done.
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Against Starlink's terms of service.
 
w1z4rd said:
Rural people includes farm people and people in small villages who can afford it. I am in a rural / urban area. There are plenty of schools, b&b's, hotels, etc that are in rural areas that will benefit from this.
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And you guys struggle with internet? No fibre?
 
I guess the envelopes are lighter elsewhere in Africa.
 
quovadis said:
Difference is Starlink enforce them.
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Oh please, tons of guest houses / lodges running Starlink in the bush for multiple people.

No difference been that (and multiple users) or a village clubbing together for a subscription.

They're not reselling outside of their localized domain for commericial use - this would be the issue.
 
shadow_man said:
Oh please, tons of guest houses / lodges running Starlink in the bush for multiple people.

No difference been that (and multiple users) or a village clubbing together for a subscription.

They're not reselling outside of their localized domain for commericial use - this would be the issue.
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Believe what you want, they do enforce their terms. Gotta get a different plan.
 
Yoztruly said:
Is Starlink free? I ask because I see a lot of people talk about rural people missing out when they talk about it. Rural South Africa has no money for such. If they did, the fibre companies would have rolled out there by now.
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They have. One person gets it and resells it for R50 each. It's not the best but we don't need Vodacom and Vumatel rolling out crappy "fibre" services. If only those in charge could see that the best way to handle competition issues is not to block deals but to let normal competitive forces run their course without bringing things like BEE and "previously disadvantaged" into it.
 
Brian_G said:
Think deeper man. I didn't say helping them win, did I?

That's their motivation though, BEE will be increasing the numbers for them.
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That is the plan. How many voters seeing BEE as nothing more than a feeding trough have they lost though?

quovadis said:
Against Starlink's terms of service.
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Not if it's the same property. Also no way to enforce wifi access as multiple people could be accessing it legitimately.
 
Swa said:
Not if it's the same property. Also no way to enforce wifi access as multiple people could be accessing it legitimately.
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Technically it's the same household. Of course there are ways to enforce it, it's quite easy to know that a village watching YouTube (or insert any social media/popular site) during peak hours isn't a single household not to mention the bandwidth usage alone would be atypical.
 
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