Dhaka:
Starlink from Tech Billionaire Elon Musk has started offering satellite service in Bangladesh. Starlink confirmed the launch and said that its services are now available throughout the region of the South Asian nation. This made Bangladesh the second neighbor of India na Bhutan to gain access to Starlink's technology.
“Starlink's high-speed internet with low latency is now available in Bangladesh”, the company posted on X.
The chief adviser of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus- who led the country since the foreign prime minister Sheikh Hasina, after weeks of violent protest- said that the deal was offered a service that could not be disturbed by a future political revolution.
During the students' protest against the Hasina government in July last year, the authorities had suspended internet and SMS services.
“This has created a sustainable alternative for premium customers to get high-quality and fast internet services,” he wrote in a Facebook message.
Yunus approached Musk for the first time in February of this year with an invitation to visit Bangladesh and launch the Starlink -Satellite service there. In a letter written to Musk, the Nobel Prize winner said that the integration of Starlink's connectivity in the country's infrastructure would have a transformational impact on his youth and women.
He also asked his administration to coordinate closely together with the SpaceX team to ensure completion of the required work to prepare Starlink for the launch in Bangladesh within the “next ninety working days” from that moment.
How much does the service cost
Monthly packages start at 4,200 Taka ($ 35) for the now national service, said Yunus Aide Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, with a one -off payment of 47,000 Taka needed for installation materials. In Indian rupees, the amount is almost RS 2,990 per month for the service.
Starlink is quickly expanded worldwide to operate in more than 70 countries, with a strong focus on further growth in emerging markets such as India, where the company wants to erase the final regulatory obstacle for starting satcom services.
In the meantime, the Indian government has started the process of assigning spectrum to SatCom companies, including SatCom JVS and investments from Local Reliance Jio and Airtel. Buurland Pakistan has also granted a temporary license to the Musk company.
But the service started in Bangladesh before India and Pakistan, while the two nuclear driven countries were busy with military and diplomatic tensions.
