{"id":153596,"date":"2025-09-13T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153596\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:47:18","slug":"lebanon-licenses-elon-musks-starlink-for-satellite-internet-services-naharnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153596\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon licenses Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink for satellite internet services \u2014 Naharnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  by Naharnet Newsdesk 12 September 2025, 12:26<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"W460\" class=\"picture\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/w460.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">Lebanon has granted a license to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink to provide satellite internet services in the crisis-hit country known for its crumbling infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">The announcement was made late Thursday by Information Minister Paul Morcos who said Starlink will provide internet services throughout Lebanon via satellites operated by Musk&#8217;s SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">The announcement came nearly three months after Musk spoke with President Joseph Aoun by telephone and told him about his interest in working in the country&#8217;s telecommunications and internet sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">During the same Cabinet meeting, the government named regulatory authorities for the country&#8217;s electricity and telecommunications sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">Naming a regulatory authority for Lebanon&#8217;s corruption-plagued electricity sector has been a key demand by international organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Naharnet Newsdesk 12 September 2025, 12:26 Lebanon has granted a license to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink to provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-153596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}