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- Starlink is an internet company owned by America’s billionaire Elon Musk.
- The company targets to service five per cent of internet users in the world, inclusive of Africa’s biggest economy.
- Starlink expects to start operation by the end of the year 2022.
It is about to go down in Nigeria!
This is if data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is anything to go by. The data from this independent National Regulatory Authority for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria shows that two of the country’s telcos have lost over 1.37 million data users.
This is after Starlink, an internet company owned by America’s billionaire Elon Musk, revealed that it was planning to invest in the Nigerian internet service market. MTN and 9mobile have been the biggest casualties.
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Despite the hopes, questions abound if Starlink will manage to address …