Sri Lanka set to amend decades-old law to pave Starlink entry

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament will vote this week to change a law to allow Elon Musk’s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to set up operations in the South Asian island nation, a Sri Lankan minister told Reuters on Monday.

Under the new telecommunications bill, once it is passed in parliament, Sri Lanka will introduce a new license category that will allow Starlink to enter the country’s telecommunications space as a licensed service provider, said Kanaka Herath, the state minister of technology.