The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband provider will operate in the market freely using the Ku-band.

Starlink's approval of the license has been confirmed by investment firm Resscop & Delaporte, which seemingly brokered the deal.

In the press release, Resscop & Delaporte state that Starlink has also been authorized to sell equipment directly and via resellers.

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Price points? Affordability? Funding and sustainability?

I have an inkling this will be short-lived due to problems similar to those faced by OLPC.

Have you noticed that some Starlink use in Ukraine is to plonk it down in the middle of a village or urban area and let 100 people connect to it with individual phones? Way cheaper than a mobile phone tower. Albeit annoying that you have to stay within wifi range to use it.

I'd presume most of most of these would be paid for with some of the aid money that goes to Haiti,they get $2.5B per year. Internet is pretty important.

If you wanted to expand the range to the equivalent of what a mobile phone tower would cover, how many satellite receivers would be necessary? Would the price point be more, less, or comparable to a mobile phone tower with that number of receivers?

But would that be the best way to use that money and would that funding be consistently reliable?

Perhaps you'd use a mobile phone tower plus a Starlink ground station -- satellite back-haul is already a thing in the mobile phone industry.

I think it avoids one of the main problems with Haiti aid in being more difficult for this to be misappropriated for corruption, due to the Dishes being GPS-tracked. Easy to tell if it's not where it should be serving a rural school.

And yes, I do think providing rural schools with internet really is one of the absolute best uses of monetary aid to Haiti.

Whether funding would be reliable, well that's a more complex geopolitical, private donation, question I don't really have an answer for.

I'm sure that the setup fees won't discourage anyone living in Haiti.

Elon : thats possible Haitians : we won $75/month Elon : how many are you ?

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One dish can service many, many people.

Until Elon throws a tantrum and takes it all back.

A net positive for any space agency that is using charcoal for rocket propulsion?

Starlink can have different price structures for different areas. When it's not over Europe/USA it is basically just waiting to be back over. So it doesn't cost anything to extend service.

Ground equipment would be a different story, likely sharing of a dish between multiple people.

If this can be made to work in Haiti for the Haitians living there it would be fantastic