Not South Africa Elon is the only country in southern southern southern south faced with pushing on the Starlink License.
The satellite broadband service managed by the company Spacex calls to make up 30% of the capital in the Lesotho operation in Basotho in Basotho as a licensing condition.
Lesotho Rights Group 2nd Section 2, Lesotho Communications Organization – the country’s version of the independent communication organization of South Africa – to protest the Starlink license of “Full of local property.”
Musk criticized licensing requirements for telecommunications operators such as South Africa as Starlink, which requires at least 30% of the “historically disadvantaged”, as it is “I’m not black”, can not get a license in X.
The “Partizan Organization” section “Partizan Organization” section “Partizan Organization, which is the best interests of the” management decisions that reflects the best interests of the people of the Basoto, “said Starlink, who did not have local shareholding in Section 2, he said.
“SECTION 2 During the recognition of the potential benefits of the expanded Internet, we respect this license to adapt to Starlink due to the lack of local property in the company …”.
Equilibrium
“The telecommunications sector in Lesotho has been a deliberate approach to balancing foreign investment with local participation. Econet Telecom Lesotho, for example, the Econet wireless global, but the Lesotho government has a 30% stony,” Sekabi wrote. “Similarly, the Vodacom Lesotho, 80% of the Vodacom group, is still organized by 20% of the sekha-meths consortium, a group of local basoto businessmen and public figures.”
Section 2, Starlink Lesotho, the Netherlands, the Netherlands, “All US citizens” was 100% organized 100%.
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“It does not leave any place to the basic property through government or local authorities,” he wrote Sekabi. “Such a structure is the risk of Lesoto’s citizens in accordance with the economic benefits of a telecommunications operation, including profit and services and services in accordance with job creation and service priorities.”

According to Starlink’s service availability mapThe company will launch its services in 2025 in the mountains. In neighboring South Africa, the history of the service is withdrawn against the rules of black reinforcement, the history of the service “This time is not known.
StarLink is already three of South Africa’s neighboring countries (previously Swaziland), Botswana and Zimbabwe. In addition to Lesotho, the only other country in South Africa is still commercial starlink services, this year is Namibia with a start of starlink. – © 2025 Newscentral Media
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