{"id":928813,"date":"2025-05-07T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=928813"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:59:46","slug":"after-india-airtel-partners-elon-musks-spacex-to-bring-starlink-internet-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/07\/after-india-airtel-partners-elon-musks-spacex-to-bring-starlink-internet-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"After India, Airtel partners Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa has announced an agreement with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to bring Starlink\u2019s high-speed internet services to its customers in Africa. This comes after the Indian telecom giant announced a distribution agreement to bring Starlink\u2019s high-speed satellite internet services to customers in India earlier this year. Currently, SpaceX has acquired the necessary licenses in 9 out of 14 countries within Airtel Africa\u2019s operational area, while the same for the remaining 5 countries is currently being processed. This collaboration aims to enhance Airtel Africa\u2019s next-generation satellite connectivity offerings that will be available for enterprises, businesses, and socio-economic communities in rural parts of Africa, such as schools and health centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa has announced an agreement with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to bring Starlink\u2019s high-speed internet services to its customers in Africa. This comes after the Indian telecom giant announced a distribution agreement to bring Starlink\u2019s high-speed satellite internet services to customers in India earlier this year. Currently, SpaceX has acquired the necessary licenses in 9 out of 14 countries within Airtel Africa\u2019s operational area, while the same for the remaining 5 countries is currently being processed. This collaboration aims to enhance Airtel Africa\u2019s next-generation satellite connectivity offerings that will be available for enterprises, businesses, and socio-economic communities in rural parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928813","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}