Elon Musk has warned SpaceX cannot help carry the cost of high-speed broadband Internet for Ukraine indefinitely.
his company SpaceX cannot help carry the cost of high-speed broadband Internet for Ukraine indefinitely, after an earlier furore over his public comments suggesting the government in Kyiv cede territory in exchange for peace with Russia.
SpaceX “is not asking to recoup past expenses” on Starlink services in Ukraine, Musk said on Twitter, but it also cannot sustain the financial support or send thousands more terminals to Ukraine. The Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine are using data as much as 100 times the amount of typical households, Musk added. A week ago he tweeted that Starlink in Ukraine had cost SpaceX US$80-million, which would likely surpass $100-million by the end of the year.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister for digital transformation, has said previously the country is getting Starlink terminals free of charge, although he added there might be a different arrangement between Musk and the US Agency for International Development and European entities which provided most of the Starlinks to Ukraine. The terminals are proving crucial in supporting infrastructure across Ukraine and for its troops on the ground against Russian forces.
The Starlink terminals in Ukraine are using data as much as 100 times the amount of typical households CNN reported on Thursday that SpaceX warned the Pentagon in September it may no longer part-fund the Starlink service in Ukraine unless the US military provided tens of millions of dollars of support per month. Musk is the world’s richest man.Musk angered Ukrainians — from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy down — with his recent suggestion that Ukraine should seek a negotiated solution to the invasion by Russia and cede Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014, for good.
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