{"id":196616,"date":"2024-09-24T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/elon-musk-breaks-silence-on-starlink-impact-in-kenya"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:22:27","slug":"elon-musk-breaks-silence-on-starlink-impact-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/elon-musk-breaks-silence-on-starlink-impact-in-kenya","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Breaks Silence on Starlink Impact in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-breaks-silence-on-starlink-impact-in-kenya.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually getting Starlink because it\u2019s competitively priced, and I can walk to my local Grocery Store up the street, and order it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>President Ruto had on Monday during a business roundtable meeting revealed that Starlink\u2019s entry into the Kenyan market faced a lot of resistance from local players who felt the foreign firm\u2019s entry would eat into their market share.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto admitted during the roundtable that Kenya would be seeking more competitors in a bid to revolutionize the digital space in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Starlink has been well received with many Kenyan companies and business owners signaling a shift in a bid to access alternative internet options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m actually getting Starlink because it\u2019s competitively priced, and I can walk to my local Grocery Store up the street, and order it. President Ruto had on Monday during a business roundtable meeting revealed that Starlink\u2019s entry into the Kenyan market faced a lot of resistance from local players who felt the foreign firm\u2019s entry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1506,418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-food","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196616","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}