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Starlink’s Sky Grab: How SpaceX Is Quietly Rewiring the Global Internet Game

Starlink’s Sky Grab: How SpaceX Is Quietly Rewiring the Global Internet Game

Starlink launched its first batch of 60 satellites in 2019, and by late 2024 the constellation numbered nearly 7,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit. In 2022 Starlink introduced laser inter-satellite links, enabling data to hop between satellites and extending coverage to oceans, polar regions, and remote locales. By mid-2023 Starlink declared global coverage aside from regulatory holdouts, with service reaching Arctic…
3 June 2025
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Inside Burundi’s Digital Struggle: The Truth About Internet Access and the Satellite Solution

Inside Burundi’s Digital Struggle: The Truth About Internet Access and the Satellite Solution

As of January 2025, Burundi had about 1.78 million internet users, roughly 12.5% of ~14 million people, leaving about 88–90% offline. About 99.6% of internet subscriptions are mobile broadband, while fixed broadband is virtually nonexistent with ~0.3% of homes wired and only about 3,000 fixed broadband subscriptions in 2023. 4G coverage reached about 32% of the population in 2023, 3G…
2 June 2025
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You Won’t Believe Brunei’s Internet: 5G Everywhere, 100 Mbps for All – Even Satellites Are Joining

You Won’t Believe Brunei’s Internet: 5G Everywhere, 100 Mbps for All – Even Satellites Are Joining

In 2019 Brunei created Unified National Networks (UNN), a wholesale network consolidating fixed, mobile, and submarine infrastructure for DST, imagine, and Progresif. In June 2023 Brunei officially launched nationwide 5G with about 90% of the population covered. A Fixed Broadband Uplift Program raised the baseline fixed broadband speed to 100 Mbps for all subscribers and tested 1 Gbps in a…
2 June 2025
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Botswana’s Digital Leap: How Satellites and Smartphones Are Redefining Internet Access in the Kalahari

Botswana’s Digital Leap: How Satellites and Smartphones Are Redefining Internet Access in the Kalahari

As of early 2024, about 2.09 million Batswana were internet users, representing roughly 77.3% of the population. Cellular penetration is around 185%, with mobile internet subscriptions at 2.93 million and fixed-line subscriptions at 164,000. Orange Botswana launched Africa’s first 5G network in 2022, initially covering about 30% of the population. SpaceX’s Starlink entered Botswana in August 2024 after BOCRA approved…
2 June 2025
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10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

The Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) became Seychelles’ first major undersea cable, linking the islands to continental Africa in the early 2010s and ending reliance on satellites. In August 2021, Intelvision secured support to lease a branch of the 2Africa submarine cable, enabling 600 Gbps of international capacity and added redundancy. Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) began a nationwide Fibre-to-the-Home…
29 May 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s High-Speed Internet Revolution: Fiber Booms, 5G Soars, and Satellites Race to Connect the Kingdom

Saudi Arabia’s High-Speed Internet Revolution: Fiber Booms, 5G Soars, and Satellites Race to Connect the Kingdom

Saudi Telecom Company (stc) accounted for about 67% of Saudi Arabia’s telecom market by revenue in Q3 2022, and held roughly 50–55% of mobile subscribers, with Mobily at 20–25% and Zain at 10–15%. The Saudi Open Access agreement in 2020 allows all six major network operators—stc, Mobily, Zain, Salam, Dawiyat, and GO Telecom—to share towers and fiber networks to boost…
11 March 2025
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  • Hansa Investment Co Announces Repurchase and Cancellation of Own Shares
    January 19, 2026, 1:11 PM EST. Hansa Investment Company Limited has repurchased 35,000 ordinary shares and 90,000 non-voting 'A' shares at 272.00p per share, with all repurchased shares set for cancellation. Post-transaction, the company's share capital includes 68,200,460 ordinary voting shares and 134,808,920 non-voting 'A' shares. The move complies with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, providing shareholders updated figures for interest notifications. This share buyback reduces outstanding share count, potentially impacting the company's market valuation and shareholder structure.
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