Numerous Starlink roaming users are despondent over the company’s decision to cut off access to its services in African countries where it has not yet received regulatory approval on 30 April 2024.
Starlink outperforms licensed satellite broadband services in South Africa and is significantly cheaper, despite lacking official local support or ground stations.
Those who could afford traditional satellite connections had to pay R1,000 or more for speeds of 10Mbps. When it comes to Starlink speed tests performed on MyBroadband’s platforms, it is important to note that these might have slower speeds than users actually experience, as our test traffic goes to South African data centres.
In addition, without any local ground infrastructure and relying solely on its inter-satellite links, the speed tests showed an average latency of 294ms. However, even when looking at their ideal advertised speeds, which are not always achievable, they fall well short of Starlink’s tested performance, plan structures, and pricing.
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