{"id":980788,"date":"2025-12-18T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980788"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:32:42","slug":"airtel-africa-teams-up-with-starlink-to-launch-direct-to-cell-service-in-14-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/18\/airtel-africa-teams-up-with-starlink-to-launch-direct-to-cell-service-in-14-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Africa teams up with Starlink to launch direct-to-cell service in 14 markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa said on Tuesday it has partnered with SpaceX to introduce Starlink&#8217;s direct-to-cell satellite technology to all its 14 markets. <\/p>\n<p>The satellite-to-mobile service will begin across Africa in 2026, with data for select applications and text messaging, Airtel Africa said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel Africa customers with compatible smartphones in regions without terrestrial coverage will have network connectivity through Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa said on Tuesday it has partnered with SpaceX to introduce Starlink&#8217;s direct-to-cell satellite technology to all its 14 markets. The satellite-to-mobile service will begin across Africa in 2026, with data for select applications and text messaging, Airtel Africa said in a statement. Airtel Africa customers with compatible smartphones in regions without terrestrial coverage will have network connectivity through Starlink.<\/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-980788","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\/980788","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=980788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}