US EditionBolivia Lifts Restrictions on Satellite Companies Like Starlink to Upgrade Its Internet Connectivity
Bolivia’s decree lifts previous restrictions to reduce the digital divide by enabling Starlink and Kuiper to provide faster internet, addressing the slowest speeds in South America, says Ookla.
- On Tuesday, President Rodrigo Paz signed a decree in La Paz allowing Starlink and Kuiper to provide nationwide service, rescinding restrictions from predecessor Luis Arce.
- To attract foreign capital and tackle dollar shortages, the government granted licenses aiming to reduce the digital divide and guarantee better connectivity after earlier this week cutting fuel subsidies amid protests by labor unions across Bolivia.
- For years Bolivia relied on the Chinese Tupac Katari geostationary satellite that orbits about 35,000 kilometers, while modern LEO satellites used by Starlink orbit roughly 550 kilometers and an Ookla report found Bolivia had the slowest internet speeds in South America.
- Improved satellite links could ease conference calls and cloud computing, and Paz said Tesla, Amazon, Tether, and Oracle plan data centers near El Alto and Cochambamba.
- The policy reversal marks a break with the prior administration's stance as last year Luis Arce's government refused a SpaceX license citing data protection, while Paz said Bolivia had fallen behind.
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Bolivia lifts restrictions on satellite companies to upgrade internet connectivity
Bolivia’s new government has issued a decree that will allow global satellite internet companies such as Starlink or Kuiper to provide internet access across the Andean nation as it tries to upgrade its technology and speed up its notoriously slow conn...
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Bolivia lifts restrictions on satellite companies like Starlink to upgrade its internet connectivity
Bolivia’s new government has issued a decree that will allow global satellite internet companies such as Starlink or Kuiper to provide internet access across the Andean nation as it tries to upgrade its technology and speed up its notoriously slow connectivity rates.
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Independent EspañolBy CARLOS VALDEZ LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — On Tuesday, the new Bolivian government authorized Starlink, from Elon Musk, and other satellite internet companies to operate in the Andean country to compete with a Chinese technology satellite purchased in 2013 by then-left president Evo Morales and criticized for his slow service. The decree issued by the new president of center-right Rodrigo Paz also authorizes OneWeb of the Eutelsat and Kuiper group …
As he had anticipated since his inauguration, the President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, promulgated on Tuesday, December 23, Supreme Decree 5509, which authorizes the implementation of telecommunications services by low-orbiting satellites, known as LEO, which will allow the operation of services such as Starlink (SpaceX), OneWeb and Amazon LEO. In a press conference, Paz Pereira announced that in February 2026 the first Technological Pole …
President Rodrigo Paz made the announcement of the approved norm, which, he explained, will be aimed at expanding the coverage of Internet services and guaranteeing universal access to connectivity, without distinction of place distance or social condition.
Rodrigo Paz Pereira promulgates a rule that opens the way for companies such as Starlink, OneWeb and Kuiper, while announcing technology pole in El Alto and scholarships with Google and IBM. On Tuesday, the national government promulgated a historic decree that will allow the use of low-orbit satellites to offer telecommunications services throughout the country. The measure, signed by President Rodrigo Paz Pereira, seeks to close the digital di…
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