SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the corporate is now near having 100 energetic Starlinks, the firm’s satellite web service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests across the Islamic country.
Musk said, “approaching 100 Starlinks energetic in Iran”, in a tweet on Monday.
The billionaire had said in September that he would activate Starlink in Iran as a part of a U.S.-backed effort “to advance web freedom and the free flow of knowledge” to Iranians.
The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the federal government’s restrictions on accessing the web and certain social media platforms amid protests across the country.
The Islamic Republic has been engulfed in protests that erupted after the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after being arrested by the morality police for wearing “unsuitable attire.”
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the corporate is now near having 100 energetic Starlinks, the firm’s satellite web service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests across the Islamic country.
Musk said, “approaching 100 Starlinks energetic in Iran”, in a tweet on Monday.
The billionaire had said in September that he would activate Starlink in Iran as a part of a U.S.-backed effort “to advance web freedom and the free flow of knowledge” to Iranians.
The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the federal government’s restrictions on accessing the web and certain social media platforms amid protests across the country.
The Islamic Republic has been engulfed in protests that erupted after the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after being arrested by the morality police for wearing “unsuitable attire.”
