{"id":51548,"date":"2025-08-07T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51548\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:00:04","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-satellite-service-loses-its-shine-with-consumers-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51548\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink Satellite Service Loses its Shine With Consumers in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Some Kenyans turned to Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite communications service after the government tried to restrict access to the internet during last year\u2019s protests that left more than 60 dead. Anti-government demonstrations returned in June. This time, though, Starlink\u2019s appeal has faded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Those who purchased the service may have thought it could help bypass government control over internet access because satellite internet is less susceptible to terrestrial infrastructure disruptions like cable cuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Kenyans turned to Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite communications service after the government tried to restrict access to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[45,49,48,57,14208,23200,893,15913,14211,2546,244,17707,35119,995,306,61,7161],"class_list":["post-51548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cities","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-government","tag-hardware","tag-industries","tag-infrastructure","tag-internet","tag-kenya","tag-nairobi","tag-regulation","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-tesla-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}