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Why Bolivia is putting Starlink dishes in public schools
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Bolivia's government spent two years treating Starlink dishes as contraband, and people smuggled them in from Peru anyway. This week the president started putting 4,700 of them in public schools. The reason goes back to a $302 million satellite China built for them. Back in 2010, Evo Morales's government signed a deal with the China Development Bank to give Bolivia its own satellite. The bank covered 85% of the cost. It went up in December 2013, got named after an 18th-century Aymara rebel,…
firesidealpha@firesidealpha18h ago
Bolivian President says Starlink will make information “open to everyone,” with a connection even “in the deepest ravine,” as 4,700 antennas go to schools nationwide Rodrigo Paz (President): “…it’s the same kind of network we are building through this system of Starlink antennas, to create a network of information and communication and to decentralize the power that some hold when only a few keep the information. Now information will be open to everyone.” “It’s more than 4,000 antennas, 4,700 antennas if I’m not mistaken, nationwide for every department, but especially for rural municipalities, because you don’t only need a road to communicate, you need information to make decisions...” "...It doesn't matter where in the country you are, in the deepest ravine, you'll have a connection there. It's not one satellite, it's many satellites, thousands of satellites that are going to serve Bolivia."