Bolivia says no to Elon Musk’s Starlink, experts cite worries over unchecked dominance

Web pages load at a crawling pace. Video streams glitch and freeze. Outside Bolivia’s biggest cities, the nearest Internet signal is sometimes hours away over treacherous mountain roads.

So when Elon Musk’s Starlink offered Bolivia fast, affordable Internet beamed from space, many expected the Andean nation of 12 millions to celebrate. Instead, Bolivia said no thanks.