{"id":228482,"date":"2026-03-25T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-local-internet-providers-unreliable-lawyer-amoomo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:02:27","slug":"namibia-local-internet-providers-unreliable-lawyer-amoomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-local-internet-providers-unreliable-lawyer-amoomo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Local Internet Providers Unreliable &#8211; Lawyer Amoomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Lawyer Kadhila Amoomo has called local internet service providers &#8216;unreliable monopolies&#8217; after the government this week rejected Starlink&#8217;s application to operate in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The government says the satellite internet provider does not meet key legal and regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a social media post following the announcement on Tuesday, Amoomo says Namibians &#8220;must continue suffering at the hands of a monopoly Telecom, which is unreliable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250256.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Kadhila Amoomo has called local internet service providers &#8216;unreliable monopolies&#8217; after the government this week rejected Starlink&#8217;s application to operate in Namibia. The government says the satellite internet provider does not meet key legal and regulatory requirements. In a social media post following the announcement on Tuesday, Amoomo says Namibians &#8220;must continue suffering at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,54004,7162,8000,7823,4706,724,257,26417,254,27499],"class_list":["post-228482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amoomo","tag-internet","tag-lawyer","tag-local","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-providers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unreliable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/228482","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=228482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}