Starlink Internet Launches in Yemen

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, has launched in Yemen.

The company – run by the world’s richest person – announced its arrival in Yemen, one of the world’s least developed countries, in a post on social media platform X which is also owned by the US-based tech billionaire.

Starlink’s network of low Earth orbit satellites can provide internet to remote locations or areas that have had normal communications infrastructure disabled.

“Starlink is now available in Yemen!” the post said on Wednesday.

Yemen is the first country in the Middle East to receive the service, which requires a dish and a router.

A map on Starlink’s website shows the network, which can connect remote areas to high-speed internet via satellite, available across Yemen, in government-held areas as well as around its rebel-held capital Sanaa and much of the Red Sea coast held by the Huthis.