{"id":34610,"date":"2026-05-15T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34610"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:29:49","slug":"uganda-grants-operating-license-to-elon-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-grants-operating-license-to-elon-musks-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda grants operating license to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has granted a license to Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet firm Starlink to operate in the East African \u200ccountry, President Yoweri Museveni said in a post on X this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starlink, a unit of SpaceX, has been rapidly expanding across Africa and is already operating in more \u2060than a dozen countries on the continent, including Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Museveni said he had presided over the signing of an &#8220;operational licence agreement between the Uganda Communications Commission and Starlink, marking an important step towards the commencement of their operations in Uganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Uganda Communications Commission is the country&#8217;s communications \u200csector \u2060regulator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased that Starlink has agreed to comply with Uganda&#8217;s laws and regulatory requirements as it prepares to begin service delivery in the country,&#8221; \u2060he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan consumers have long complained about the high cost and unreliability of domestic internet services, which \u2060some blame on limited competition in the market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A unit of South African telecom giant \u2060MTN Group, dominates Uganda&#8217;s data market, competing mainly with a unit of India&#8217;s Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14180,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-34610","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Uganda has granted a license to Elon Musk's satellite internet firm Starlink","published_date":"2026-05-15 19:12:55","news_description":"Uganda has granted a license to Elon Musk's satellite internet firm Starlink","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34611,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34610\/revisions\/34611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}