{"id":153641,"date":"2022-12-26T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:22:58","slug":"elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says around 100 Starlinks now active in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dec 26 (Reuters) \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm\u2019s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said, \u201capproaching 100 starlinks active in Iran\u201d, in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire had <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/musk-says-activating-starlink-response-blinken-internet-freedom-iran-2022-09-23\/\" class=\"\">said in September<\/a> that he would activate Starlink in Iran as part of a U.S.-backed effort \u201cto advance internet freedom and the free flow of information\u201d to Iranians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 26 (Reuters) \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm\u2019s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country. Musk said, \u201capproaching 100 starlinks active in Iran\u201d, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}