Starlink Roam works in South Africa

[Jan]

Elon Musk's Starlink now available in South Africa — but there is a catch

SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet service can be used in South Africa, provided you can import its customer premises kit and pay a subscription of over R3,600 per month.

MyBroadband has learnt of two South Africans who managed to use Starlink's network locally after subscribing to its recently-launched "Roam" service.

 

[Park@82]

Could be handy if the grid collapses.

 

[2525252525]

For businesses, R3,663 is peanuts for high-speed internet on very remote sites.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Elon is still pissed off at the Bryanston High chinas who moered him.

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

For businesses, R3,663 is peanuts for high-speed internet on very remote sites.

They are going to have to order a dish for their SA address after two months though.

 

[konfab]

Icasa previously told MyBroadband SpaceX would require various licences to operate legally in South Africa — but cast doubts about whether it would be able to get all of these if it did not meet a 30% black ownership requirement for Internet service providers (ISPs).

#BlackPrivilage

 

[gregmcc]

Available but not "available"

And there you have it....

did not meet a 30% black ownership requirement for Internet service providers (ISPs).

 

[RedViking]

Well it is a start!

Thanks for informing the government.

 

[ConfusedR]

Elon is still pissed off at the Bryanston High chinas who moered him.

Nope.
He is pissed off because he does not want to give 30 percent ownership to freeloaders

 

[HartsockZA]

For businesses, R3,663 is peanuts for high-speed internet on very remote sites.

Erm... not with an upload of just 6Mbps. you're still screwed.
Home owner in the sticks will be ok but camera's, sage, tracking equipment on farms. Eish don't think so.

So this article is basically an FU to ICASA something I'd dare not do personally, I wonder what ISPA and the Wireless guys have to say about this cause surely there is considerable interference or am I dead wrong here?

 

[Vorastra]

Well it is a start!

Thanks for informing the government.

Site clicks are more important.

 

[wingnut771]

Erm... not with an upload of just 6Mbps. you're still screwed.
Home owner in the sticks will be ok but camera's, sage, tracking equipment on farms. Eish don't think so.

So this article is basically an FU to ICASA something I'd dare not do personally, I wonder what ISPA and the Wireless guys have to say about this cause surely there is considerable interference or am I dead wrong here?

I’m sure there are plenty of brown envelopes from the established guys going to icaca to keep starlink out.

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Well it is a start!

Thanks for informing the government.

Forcing people to use these kinds of workarounds is not sustainable.

 

[RedViking]

Forcing people to use these kinds of workarounds is not sustainable.

Desperate times....

 

[K3NS31]

As I said in the other thread linked to the previous article - just cos it's not "legal" yet doesn't mean it won't work.

 

[K3NS31]

Erm... not with an upload of just 6Mbps. you're still screwed.
Home owner in the sticks will be ok but camera's, sage, tracking equipment on farms. Eish don't think so.

So this article is basically an FU to ICASA something I'd dare not do personally, I wonder what ISPA and the Wireless guys have to say about this cause surely there is considerable interference or am I dead wrong here?

Eh? Cameras yes, but what does Sage need so much speed for? 6meg is plenty.
Plus if you're in a situation where you need to use Starlink (semi legally no less); then your other options are probably muuuch slower.

 

[HartsockZA]

As I said in the other thread linked to the previous article - just cos it's not "legal" yet doesn't mean it won't work.

this might be true, but ICASA is the devil, and you piss that off nice fine and jail time.

Eh? Cameras yes, but what does Sage need so much speed for? 6meg is plenty.
Plus if you're in a situation where you need to use Starlink (semi legally no less); then your other options are probably muuuch slower.

Sage is a turd with sprinkles on it, you'd think 6Meg is cool but come 12 or 1 AM baby needs to upload like Icloud photo backup

 

[2525252525]

this might be true, but ICASA is the devil, and you piss that off nice fine and jail time.


Sage is a turd with sprinkles on it, you'd think 6Meg is cool but come 12 or 1 AM baby needs to upload like Icloud photo backup

You should get out of Fourways at least once in your life, South Africa is pretty big and there are plenty places here where you only get to by Land Cruiser or helicopter and you will spend your life seeing like 10 people.

There are quite a few small mines and farms pretty cut off from the world. This tech is going to be adopted regardless of government and honestly, nobody, especially private companies, should care what anyone deems as technology-law who can't even keep the lights on.

Friend has a diamond mining operation and spends R250 000 on diesel a day, believe me a guy like that is not going to be phased by ICASA, believe me. He'll find the closest obese ANC blob and stuff a million in his pocket to make ICASA piss off.

 

[Swa]

So not really available. Think it always worked.

 

[eagle2k]

Hi. Assuming they are maybe talking about me regarding the second user using starlink. I am paying around R1011 for my subscription for Starlink.
I have been getting impressive results lately.

I am not on the Roam option but rather residential with portability enabled