{"id":431809,"date":"2026-02-18T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431809\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:31:10","slug":"vietnam-grants-elon-musks-spacex-license-for-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431809\/","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\/uk\/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":431810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15865,19291,1638,137043,157945,90,416,412,56,54,55,5673],"class_list":{"0":"post-431809","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-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}