Starlink: a success story with truly global impact
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, has thanked Starlink and its CEO, Elon Musk for sending more than 10,000 satellite internet receiver units to the country in the wake of the Russian invasion, and explains in a tweet with a video how these easy-to-use units requiring very few connection and power supplies, are providing many people with connectivity in a country devastated by an invader determined to silence it by attacking its connectivity infrastructure. Ukrainians are using Starlink’s antennas to provide connectivity to entire villages, and the company’s app has become one of the most downloaded in the country.
The sincere appreciation of Ukrainians provides clear evidence of Starlink’s performance and, above all, its disruptive nature. Satellite internet connection used to be prohibitively expensive and provide generally very low bandwidth, practically unfeasible for regular use. Starlink, however, manages to establish a connection comparable to fiber, and with a latency that makes it possible to play video games.
