Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar has signed an agreement with Starlink to introduce direct-to-cell satellite connectivity in the country, Kyivstar's parent company VEON said on Monday (Dec 30). Direct-to-cell services are connected to satellites that can beam phone signals from space directly to
Track record of what? Helping Ukraine rather than Russia? Even this article is about helping Ukraine, not Russia. Pretty much every Ukraine related action SpaceX has taken goes against this pro-Russia narrative yet the narrative sticks.
To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.
Starlink is not enabled in Russia or the occupied territories because it would be against U.S. sanctions and enabling it there would be literally illegal.
Musk has even said that had he been contacted by U.S. officials and told to enable it he would have but they didn’t.
However, as Musk objected immediately and Isaacson would clarify soon after, the claim that Musk had ordered Starlink coverage in Crimea “turned off” wasn’t entirely accurate. (Both CNN and The Washington Post subsequently corrected their reports.)
From the article you linked.
CNN and TWP both corrected what they wrote, but you know better?
Not sure I’d be trusting Musk’s communication network at this point. Especially not in Ukraine.
Why?
Even ignoring the track record of Starlink, he’s also buddy buddy with Putin.
Track record of what? Helping Ukraine rather than Russia? Even this article is about helping Ukraine, not Russia. Pretty much every Ukraine related action SpaceX has taken goes against this pro-Russia narrative yet the narrative sticks.
Guess you forgot about the time he shut down Starlink to stop a Ukrainian assault?
Maybe you should read the article you linked.
Starlink is not enabled in Russia or the occupied territories because it would be against U.S. sanctions and enabling it there would be literally illegal.
Musk has even said that had he been contacted by U.S. officials and told to enable it he would have but they didn’t.
That sure was their rationale after the fact, wasn’t it?
From the article you linked.
CNN and TWP both corrected what they wrote, but you know better?
Just read the article.
Your claim is that they disabled it. They didn’t. It was never enabled in the first place.
I shared it. Of course I read it. It’s also the statement from their public relations department after the fact to try and quell the public backlash.