{"id":1021249,"date":"2026-07-16T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021249"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:25:08","slug":"amazon-to-launch-its-satellite-internet-in-south-africa-seemingly-beating-out-musk-in-his-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/amazon-to-launch-its-satellite-internet-in-south-africa-seemingly-beating-out-musk-in-his-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to launch its satellite internet in South Africa, seemingly beating out Musk in his homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Wednesday that the technology company will launch its new satellite internet service Amazon Leo in South Africa in 2027, seemingly pushing ahead of Elon Musk&#8217;s rival Starlink to win business in Africa&#8217;s most advanced economy. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, said that it would partner with South African internet provider Herotel to launch a new service in the country of 62 million people. Amazon said that it was its first satellite internet agreement on the African continent. <\/p>\n<p>No financial details were initially disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Wednesday that the technology company will launch its new satellite internet service Amazon Leo in South Africa in 2027, seemingly pushing ahead of Elon Musk&#8217;s rival Starlink to win business in Africa&#8217;s most advanced economy. Amazon, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, said that it would partner with South African internet provider Herotel to launch a new service in the country of 62 million people. Amazon said that it was its first satellite internet agreement on the African continent. No financial details were initially disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021279,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021249\/revisions\/1021279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}