Can the Global South trust Starlink?

Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink is rapidly expanding across the Global South amid a lack of industry regulation. Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explains what is at stake.

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Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, recently sent its satellite No. 10,000 into space.

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PFEIFFER: Starlink is the dominating power in providing satellite Internet services globally. Its competitors don’t even come close. And Musk is expanding Starlink to countries in Africa, Asia,

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