{"id":29237,"date":"2025-06-08T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29237"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:23:35","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-hits-a-roadblock-in-its-march-across-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29237","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink Hits a Roadblock in Its March Across South America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Web pages load at a crawling pace. Video streams glitch and freeze. Outside Bolivia\u2019s biggest cities, the nearest internet signal is sometimes hours away over treacherous mountain roads.<\/p>\n

So when Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink offered Bolivia fast, affordable internet beamed from space, many expected the Andean nation of 12 million to celebrate. Instead, Bolivia said no thanks.<\/p>\n

Starlink, the satellite internet service from Mr. Musk\u2019s private space company, SpaceX, has made remarkable strides in South America, spreading to almost every country and bringing high-speed internet to the region\u2019s most far-flung corners, even reaching isolated Indigenous<\/a> people living deep in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n

But Starlink\u2019s advance has been stymied by Bolivia, which refused to give it an operating license last year, with experts and officials citing worries over its unchecked dominance everywhere it has set up shop, instead choosing to rely on the country\u2019s own aging Chinese-made satellite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The decision to reject Starlink has puzzled and angered people in Bolivia, where internet speeds are the slowest in South America and hundreds of thousands remain offline. Without an internet connection, people often struggle to get an education and lack access to jobs and fast help during natural disasters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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La Paz, the Bolivian capital. Internet speeds in Bolivia are the slowest in South America and hundreds of thousands remain offline.<\/span>Meridith Kohut for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Web pages load at a crawling pace. Video streams glitch and freeze. Outside Bolivia\u2019s biggest cities, the nearest internet signal is sometimes hours away over treacherous mountain roads.So when Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink offered Bolivia fast, affordable internet beamed from space, many expected the Andean nation of 12 million to celebrate. Instead, Bolivia said no thanks.Starlink, the satellite internet service from Mr. Musk\u2019s private space company, SpaceX, has made remarkable strides in South America, spreading to almost every country and bringing high-speed internet to the region\u2019s most far-flung corners, even reaching isolated Indigenous people living deep in the Amazon rainforest.But Starlink\u2019s advance has been stymied by Bolivia, which refused to give it an operating license last year, with experts and officials citing worries over its unchecked dominance everywhere it has set up shop, instead choosing to rely on the country\u2019s own aging Chinese-made satellite.The decision to reject Starlink has puzzled and angered people in Bolivia, where internet speeds are the slowest in South America and hundreds of thousands remain offline. Without an internet connection, people often struggle to get an education and lack access to jobs and fast help during natural disasters.La Paz, the Bolivian capital. Internet speeds in Bolivia are the slowest in South America and hundreds of thousands remain offline.Meridith Kohut for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29239,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29240,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions\/29240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}