Elon Musk’s SpaceX considering Georgia as pilot country in satellite internet project
A train of SpaceX Starlink satellites are visible in the night sky in this still from a video captured by satellite tracker Marco Langbroek in Leiden, the Netherlands on May 24, 2019, just one day after SpaceX launched 60 of the Starlink internet communications satellites into orbit. Photo: SatTrackCam.blogspot.com.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is considering Georgia to be one of the first pilot countries where the company will provide satellite internet, announces the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA).
SpaceX has shown interest in the internetization process of Georgia. It is considering the involvement of Georgia and the Georgian people in its future plans”, reads the press-release published by the GITA.
Deputy Minister of Economy Irakli Nadareishvili, Chairman of the GITA Avtandil Kasradze, and Consul General of Georgia in San Francisco Levan Beridze have discussed future cooperation details at a meeting with officials from SpaceX, including one of its main investors Bill Reichert in the US.
Photo: GITA.
GITA says that as a result of the negotiations, SpaceX will soon start the official procedure for obtaining an ISP license (internet service provider license) in Georgia with the help of GITA.
Half a million people living in almost a thousand settlements across Georgia, including in the highlands, will receive access to internet and services such as e-healthcare, education and governance thanks to a new project called 'Log in Georgia' which was launched today.
83.8 percent of Georgian households have internet access this year, which is 4.6 per cent per cent more compared to the previous year, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia.
Georgia is continuing to develop high-speed internet infrastructure in the country's regional areas, making the internet accessible for the rural population.
Consumption of fixed internet doubled in the last six years and amounted to 914,000 households in the first quarter of 2020 which is 82 per cent of households in Georgia.
A National Statistics Office of Georgia survey released on Monday showed 31 percent of enterprises in Georgia used social networks in 2021.
Georgian Deputy Economy Minister Guram Guramishvili spoke about the prospects of turning Georgia into a digital transit hub in an address at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland, the Ministry of Economy announced on Tuesday.
The Communication Commission of Georgia and representatives of SpaceX Starlink satellite internet project discussed prospects of launching access to the service in Georgia on Tuesday, the Commission has announced.
The Georgian National Communications Commission has authorised the launch of the Starlink satellite internet service in the country, approving an application for provision of high-speed broadband internet via the project of billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation.
The Starlink project will start operating in Georgia next year to provide high-speed broadband internet through satellite systems in the country, Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili announced on Friday after his meeting with Starlink Market Access Manager Ben MacWilliams.
Elon Musk, the CEO of the Starlink satellite internet provider, on Wednesday announced the company’s high-speed internet access was now available in Georgia.
The High Technology and Innovation Development Centre of Tbilisi has become the first organisation in Georgia to receive the high-speed internet from the Starlink service after the latter’s official introduction to the country on Wednesday.