Nearly a hundred Internet terminals on the Starlink network are active in Iran, SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Monday. The American billionaire had promised in September to deploy the Starlink satellite network in Iran at a time when Iranian authorities increasingly restrict internet access.
“Soon 100 Starlinks active in Iran,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
Starlink has a network of more than 2,000 small satellites in low-Earth orbit, which help provide Internet access. The terrestrial terminals are then connected to the routers that make it possible to generate Wi-Fi and therefore Internet access.
25,000 terminals in Ukraine
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, SpaceX has delivered thousands of terminals there, thus ensuring an Internet connection. Thus, to date some 25,000 terminals have been deployed in the country.
Protests have rocked Iran since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, after her arrest in Tehran by these police. Since then, hundreds of people have been killed, thousands arrested, and two 23-year-old men have been hanged.
Iranian authorities have since restricted access to Instagram and WhatsApp until this fall, the only social networks still available, and to VPNs, which Iranians use to access banned sites.
Source: BFM TV
