Lesotho earlier this week granted a 10-year licence to Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Lesotho has granted a licence to Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite internet services.
The high court in Lesotho has granted Vodacom an interim order preventing the country’s telecommunications regulator from revoking the company’s operating licence and imposing a R134-million fine.
Lesotho has written to Vodacom Group’s subsidiary in the landlocked Southern African nation, telling it that its “unified licence” to operate has been revoked. Vodacom said it will fight the decision in court.
Lesotho’s government is seeking to regulate online behaviour with a law compelling social media users to obtain an “Internet broadcasting allowance”, as unease about digital platforms grows in some African countries.