Musk drives Africa Starlink plans amid attacks on empire

Pretoria-born Musk announced the attack on X this evening, saying: “There was (still is) a massive cyber-attack against 𝕏."

President Ramaphosa and Elon Musk exchanged social media messages over land, which led to a phone call.

Since Starlink's debut into Kenya, the number of satellite internet subscriptions has increased significantly in the East African country.

Starlink currently operates in over 100 countries around the world.

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.