Falklands Government and Sure reach VSAT Licensing Agreement

Falklands Government and Sure reach VSAT Licensing Agreement

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and Sure South Atlantic (Sure) have reached an agreement to allow Sure to continue to discharge its universal service obligations under its exclusive telecommunications licence, alongside the more permissive VSAT licensing scheme approved by Executive Council in June this year.

Falkland Islands Government Grants Licence for Starlink Satellite Broadband

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has, after plenty of confusion and debate earlier in the year (here and here), finally granted a VSAT Broadband Connectivity Licence to SpaceX’s Starlink service. The move allows homes and businesses on the remote islands, which are a British Overseas Territory, to take an ultrafast internet service via Starlink’s satellite network. Just to recap. The islands, which reside around 500km off the South American…