US EditionLesotho: Starlink Launches Amid Job Losses in Lesotho
- On April 14, 2025, Lesotho granted Starlink a ten-year operating license to provide satellite internet via T-Connect Lesotho.
- This followed economic challenges including widespread job losses due to high US tariffs on imports and prior funding cuts affecting Lesotho's economy.
- Starlink aims to expand coverage nationwide, including remote schools in the Thaba-Tseka district, offering unlimited internet time at a cost below M14.
- Acting Minister Matjato Moteane said Lesotho must overcome poor terrain and inadequate digital infrastructure, and that Starlink could address unstable connectivity even in urban areas.
- Local opposition views the license as appeasement of US interests, while Musk criticized South African BEE laws as 'racist' barriers limiting Starlink's wider African operations.
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