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Starlink’s R1-billion fix for a R16-billion problem

Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet services like SpaceX’s Starlink could provide a major boost for the South African government’s rollout of Internet services to public schools in rural areas.

In a joint briefing in Parliament, the basic education and communication departments recently revealed that 16,033 of 22,000 public schools still had no connections to the Internet for teaching and learning.

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