Starlink is a satellite company owned by Elon Musk. The company won a contract from the Mexican government for $89.8 million. This contract will last until 2026, so Mexicans can use the internet for free during that time. The provision of free internet services has been agreed upon with eight other companies.
Starlink of Elon Musk Provides Free Internet Infrastructure
CNBC reports that Starlink will also provide all the infrastructure needed by Mexican energy SOEs. The infrastructure provision will last until December 2026. The contract value reaches 887.5 million pesos to 1.8 billion pesos. Musk’s company obtained the contract through a tender open to the public. It is hoped that this Mexican government program can help many Mexicans escape poverty. They can access the internet to learn many positive things. Based on the website The Conversation, the amount of poverty in Mexico reached 34% of the total population there in 2016.
Another use of the internet is to help Mexicans advance their economies. They can sell through the digital world, which means helping them get out of poverty. Before this project took place, poor people rarely had internet access. Only 63% of Mexicans can access the internet, leaving 50 million Mexicans without internet access. Meanwhile, in the developed country of the United States, 95% of the population can access the internet. In other developed countries, such as Sweden and Germany, people also have almost the same level of internet access as in the United States.
Starlink, as a subsidiary of SpaceX, also provides services in more than 40 other countries. Based on Wikipedia, the number of countries that receive Starlink services reaches 60. The number of consumers connected to Starlink has reached more than 2 million. The internet access offered is in the form of high-speed internet. Starlink is also reportedly offering services to Indonesia. However, Starlink needs to follow all the regulations implemented in Indonesia. Some examples of regulations referred to by the Minister of Communication and Information, Budi Arie Setiadi, are gateways and IP addresses that must originate from Indonesia.
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