‘Starlink not a competitor to mobile network operators’

The much-spoken-about arrival of Starlink in Zimbabwe – if it gets licensed to operate in the country – will not provide direct competition to mobile network operators in the country, according to industry analysts.Last week social media was awash with conversations – some of them very emotionally charged – insinuating that the authorities were ‘protecting’ local telecommunication companies by denying Starlink a licence to operate in the country. Both the government and the postal and telecommunications regulatory authority Potraz deny the charge. 

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