Zimbabwe approves licensing of Musk’s Starlink internet service

2024-05-25 12:47 PM by Tyler Fields

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s telecom regulator has approved the licensing of Elon Musk’s Starlink, allowing the satellite unit of SpaceX to operate in the southern African country, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The decision “is expected to result in the deployment of high speed, low cost, LEO (low-Earth-orbit) internet infrastructure throughout Zimbabwe and particularly …

Rogers urges CRTC to prioritize costs of companies that build internet networks

2024-02-15 02:21 PM by Tyler Fields

Rogers Communications Inc. says the telecom regulator should phase out its current approach to wholesale network access, which requires smaller internet companies to pay a set rate to larger ones to use their networks and then sell to Canadians. Appearing before the CRTC on Thursday during its weeklong hearing about internet competition, Rogers chief technology …