Elon Musk’s satellite internet company will be able to operate in Colombia

The Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MinTIC) announced that it granted the operating permit to the satellite internet company starlink, entrepreneur owned Elon Musk, in order to bring connectivity to the entire country, especially to areas of difficult access.

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According to the ICT minister, Carmen Ligia Valderrama Rojas, the entry of this new company will mean “a substantial improvement in the way regions will be connected”.

“Thanks to the satellite technology of actors such as Starlink, the offer in the market will be expanded. And thanks to the benefits established in the new regime, the money that the ICT Ministry stops receiving in terms of payments for spectrum use can be reinvested to improve the service to the end user.”, stated the ICT Minister, Carmen Ligia Valderrama Rojas.

This is how the authorization of the use of the spectrum for satellite services by Starlink will be used to carry radio signal, television, cellular mobile phone networks, among others.

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It should be noted that this permit was processed based on the Resolution 376 of 2022, which establishes a new Satellite Regime for the country, with which the modernization of the sector and the updating of the compensation parameters for the use of the spectrum are sought.

The ICT Ministry has highlighted that with this new regime it is expected that, in the medium term, increase the arrival of new companies to the country, at the same time that the companies that already operate with this technology in Colombia modernize their services.

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