Starlink in Africa: awards and arguments

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Guest authors

LEO satellite operator Starlink appears to have had a pretty good week or two in Africa, with licence awards in Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau and Somalia making headlines. But it isn’t quite as simple as that.

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Telecom Namibia fully restores satellite feed after IS-33e failure

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January 29, 2025
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Telecom Namibia says it has restored the satellite feed for its Satlink VSAT platform after it lost connectivity in October following the failure of Intelsat’s IS-33e satellite in October.

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DRC ends its opposition to Starlink

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May 5, 2025
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It now seems that the Democratic Republic of Congo has granted a licence to satellite communications company Starlink – despite an earlier ban, which finally appears to have been rescinded.

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Will the Lynk-Omnispace merger benefit developing markets?

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October 23, 2025
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The direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity business has been back in the headlines with the, potentially, highly significant news that two satcoms businesses, Lynk Global, a patented and commercially licensed D2D system, and Omnispace, which say…

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