Satellite Internet for Ukraine: KE spokesman Thomas Regnier said that Kiev has already “expressed interest” how he could use the Govsatcom systemi.e. an autonomous and safe satellite communication system for the rule of European Union countries. Iris² is also at stakebut this is just a planned multoribite constellation of satellite internet, which is to start operating only around 2030.
Musk will turn off the Starlink system? “Satellite Internet systems are a key tool for Ukraine, but it is not clear whether Elon Musk will continue to offer the Starlink network,” writes Politico. Doubts arose after the recent reports of Reuters that American negotiators threatened the Ukrainian side with cutting off Starlinks, If Ukraine does not sign a mineral agreement from the USA. We would like to remind you that the meeting in this matter of Donald Trump and Wołodymyr Zelanski ended in a great row.
Poland finances Starlink in Ukraine: It is true that Elon Musk then denied Reuters’s reports and accused the agency of the lie, but the European Commission prefers to blow cold. Ukraine reported that about 42,000 operated in its area last year. Starlink terminals, At the same time, about half of them were financed by Poland. “Poland bought Starlinki, which it donated to Ukraine. We pay and we will continue to pay a subscription for satellite internet for Ukraine. I can’t imagine that someone can decide to break the business agreement for a commercial service to which Poland is a party” – the minister of digitization wrote after Reuters’s information. Krzysztof Gawkowski.
Appeal to EU authorities: Thomas Regnier emphasized that “the European Commission will continue contacts with Ukraine” on access to satellite Internet systems. Politico reminds that at the beginning of the week the French MEP Christophe Grudler in a letter to EU authorities appealed to the urgent “assessment of all possible alternative satellite solutionswhich the European Union could offer Ukraine “instead of the Starlink network. It is also considered, among others, to obtain” commercial capacity “from Eutelsat, Hispasat or SES satellites, which are already in the geostationary orbit.
See also: What with military aid for Ukraine? More on this subject in the text .
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Source: Gazeta
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