Cape Verde becomes the 18th African country to adopt Starlink

The company has stopped accepting new home plan subscriptions, citing "excessive inflation" as a threat to its business, and it wants approval for price increases.

The founder of Starlink and a South African-born billionaire, announced the plans on his X platform.

The announcement was made just days after stakeholders accused the NCC of double standards for allowing price hikes, but preventing local operators from doing the same.

Elon Musk's SpaceX broadband satellite internet service became active at midnight on Friday.

The arrival of the Low-Earth Orbit internet service provider would be a welcome boost in a country with a low internet penetration.

Safaricom has requested the regulator to exercise caution in giving independent licenses to satellite internet service providers.

The application by low-orbit satellite service, Starlink, to operate in Botswana is mired in uncertainty.

Starlink says users can expect ‘typical high speed internet with brief periods of intermittent service and high latency'.

Subscribers will pay $650 for the kit - Starlink dish, mounting stand, cables, and a power source – and the monthly subscription fee is  $46.

The company announced in a tweet this week that the service has been launched.

Complainants also petition Ministry of Employment and National Labour Relations to intervene.