SpaceX Starlink Internet service will soon be available across the West African country of Nigeria, according to Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Pantami. SpaceX already delivered some Starlink user terminals to the country to commence services. “As part of the partnership, SpaceX is to provide broadband access across the whole of Nigeria, enabling nationwide access to broadband connectivity way ahead of the December 2025 schedule, as outlined in our national broadband plan,” said Pantami. “With this collaboration with SpaceX’s Starlink, Nigeria is set to be the first African country to introduce the service.” Nigeria’s goals was to cover 90% of the country’s population with reliable internet access by 2025, the goal is now attainable because the Starlink satellite network is easy to set up and capable of beaming high-speed internet to rural and remote communities. SpaceX’s official Starlink Coverage Map says the service is ‘coming soon’ to Nigeria, users must input their address on the website to find out if its already available in their specific area.

and technical writer who lives in Nigeria, shared on Twitter [@Gbahdeyboh] that he had the opportunity to test the Starlink network this week. He is one of the first-ever Starlink users in the continent. “Just got a chance to test my SpaceX Starlink out. I haven't tested extensively (I intend to do so this weekend) but I'm pretty impressed so far,” he said on January 3rd. “Got about 20Mbps [Megabits per second] on the initial test and it went up to about 240Mbps afterwards. The latency is pretty decent as well,” he shared. “I'm testing from Abeokuta, Ogun State where I've struggled greatly with sub par Internet. Even hubs here don't have the internet bit figured out yet, so it's really a big deal to me that I'm able to get above 200Mbps,” said Bello. “I get this speed despite not putting the dish in a very elevated space and having over 30% obstruction which my Starlink considers really bad. Wondering if it'll get any better if placed on the roof.” He also shared a photo of the Starlink antenna and a screenshot of the internet speed test, shown below.

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Bravo

Nice

I lost interest since. That August 2021 date was the best time to catch me. I’ve moved on to better things.

It is surprising that this new item is buried deep in the forum when it should be on the front page.

Starlink offers Nigerians UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH internet services for just $43 USD monthly which equals just 34K naira TOTAL.

If Starlink actually offers this price, then it is CERTAIN that virtually ALL of Nigeria's current internet providers will very quickly be put out of business due to the superior services and ridiculously cheap internet access offered by Starlink.

Given that Nigeria's telecom providers are the corporate entities that stand to be put out of business by Starlink virtually overnight, it remains to be seen how those corporations respond to this news of their imminent eclipse and demise as relevant players in the internet provider competition now shaping up for Africa.