The satellite internet provider Starlink now offers free service in Iran, activists said Wednesday. Mehdi Yahyanejad, a Los Angeles-based activist who has helped get the units into Iran, told The Associated Press that the free service had started. Other activists also confirmed in messages online t»»»

Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, has said that the transformative potential of SpaceX’s Starlink, which provides internet access to remote locations by low Earth orbit satellites, can bridge Pakistan’s digital divide. The remarks came during Sheikh’s high-level visi»»»