{"id":181210,"date":"2024-09-24T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-anticipate-starlink-launch-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:04:49","slug":"lesotho-basotho-anticipate-starlink-launch-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-anticipate-starlink-launch-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Anticipate Starlink Launch in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Prime Minister Sam Matekane&#8217;s meeting this week with billionaire, Elon Musk, has thrown Basotho into a frenzy, in anticipation of Starlink&#8217;s launch in Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The launch expected by the end of this year, will shake up Lesotho&#8217;s telecommunication sector to the benefit of consumers who will likely see prices of data significantly going down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Mr Matekane wrote on his <strong>X<\/strong> about his meeting with Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;Today, I had the pleasure of meeting with Elon Musk, to discuss advancing connectivity in Lesotho. We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409240415.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Sam Matekane&#8217;s meeting this week with billionaire, Elon Musk, has thrown Basotho into a frenzy, in anticipation of Starlink&#8217;s launch in Lesotho. The launch expected by the end of this year, will shake up Lesotho&#8217;s telecommunication sector to the benefit of consumers who will likely see prices of data significantly going down. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,16771,18241,5741,4717,1407,257,254,42446],"class_list":["post-181210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticipate","tag-basotho","tag-launch","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlink"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}