Facing Starlink in Africa, Orange Refines Its Counter-Offensive on the Satellite

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With Orange Sat, its new high-speed satellite Internet service, the French operator is entering a front-end competition with Elon Musk. With what chance of achieving this?

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With the launch of Orange Sat, its new high-speed satellite Internet service, the French group Orange is now competing directly with Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX owned by Elon Musk. Beyond technological innovation, it is a strategic, commercial and regulatory battle that is opening up on the African continent. "We consider the satellite to be complementary to our mobile and fixed broadband networks [...]. We are destined to deploy satellite …