{"id":228878,"date":"2026-03-29T02:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-starlink-to-appeal-namibias-licence-rejection\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:09:15","slug":"namibia-starlink-to-appeal-namibias-licence-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-starlink-to-appeal-namibias-licence-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Starlink to Appeal Namibia&#8217;s Licence Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Satellite internet services provider Starlink says it will pursue an appeal following the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia&#8217;s rejection of its application to operate in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">In a statement this week, Starlink describes the authority&#8217;s decision as a &#8220;disappointing outcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Especially for the thousands of you who placed deposits, participated in the public consultation, and made your voices heard,&#8221; the company says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Starlink says &#8220;hope is not lost&#8221;, noting that Cran&#8217;s regulatory&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270409.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>Satellite internet services provider Starlink says it will pursue an appeal following the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia&#8217;s rejection of its application to operate in Namibia. In a statement this week, Starlink describes the authority&#8217;s decision as a &#8220;disappointing outcome&#8221;. &#8220;Especially for the thousands of you who placed deposits, participated in the public consultation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8992,12476,4706,724,9052,257,11313,254,42446],"class_list":["post-228878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-licence","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-rejection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlink"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228878","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=228878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}