{"id":289476,"date":"2026-02-18T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:53:09","slug":"vietnam-grants-elon-musks-spacex-license-for-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289476\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam grants Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX license for internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Starlink satellite service enters market as Vingroup launches rival provider<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260219 Elon Musk Starlink\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Elon\u00a0Musk, CEO\u00a0of SpaceX and Tesla, leaves after a launch\u00a0ceremony for Starlink&#8217;s internet service in Bali, Indonesia in May 2024. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>LIEN HOANG<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2026 12:13 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HO CHI MINH CITY &#8212; Vietnam granted Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX a radio frequency license, bringing the Starlink satellite internet service a step closer to launch in the one-party state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Starlink satellite service enters market as Vingroup launches rival provider Elon\u00a0Musk, CEO\u00a0of SpaceX and Tesla, leaves after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[17448,2993,359,75080,17444,111,139,69,147,392,1503,2317],"class_list":{"0":"post-289476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-elon","9":"tag-grants","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-license","12":"tag-musks","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-spacex","19":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}