Will Starlink be available for poor countries?

[Hocigache]

Hello everyone, i know it's a bit too late to worry about this but i was wondering if governments could stop it's citizens from using starlink internet in the future, our gouvernement(algeria) refuse any kind of internet competition the only internet company in the country belongs to the government and  it's services are aweful and the prices super high it start from 2 mbps up to 20mbps but since it's super expensive most people use the 2 mbps which sucks so what do you think we can do if the government bans the starlink internet

[Bombastinator]

It’s satellite so the signal will be accessible.  It would also probably require special equipment to access.  If I was the government and wanted to ban starlink I would ban the equipment, or arrange something with spaceX

[PeachGr]

Elon said that is it's use is mostly for poor countries and countries with restrictions (such as north Korea/ China/ Russia)

[ogsdu]

I'm from venezuela and we have an even worse internet, I really hope Elon saves me with starlink

[Hocigache]

2 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

It’s satellite so the signal will be accessible.  It would also probably require special equipment to access.  If I was the government and wanted to ban starlink I would ban the equipment, or arrange something with spaceX

don't you think the chinese would make some sort of cheaper and easier equipement to sell to those countries illegaly in case those countries ban thos equipements?

[Bombastinator]

12 minutes ago, Hocigache said:

don't you think the chinese would make some sort of cheaper and easier equipement to sell to those countries illegaly in case those countries ban thos equipements?

I think the Chinese make basically everything now.  I think the Chinese government doesn’t like an unsegregatable starlink any more than any other country with segregated internet does.  The mere existence and position of China implies that some sort of accommodation by spaceX will happen, and there will be a way for a nation to control what can be accessed, and that control could be made hardware based.   I think there is a good chance that it will benefit the Chinese government.  It could be for example that to maintain its information monopoly a nation would have to join some China dominated system and become even more controlled.  Chinese manufacturers do tend to ignore laws outside their nation but they do not generally ignore laws inside their nation if those laws are enforced.  Ignoring American patents is one thing.  Ignoring Chinese patents is a different thing for example.

[Roswell]

1 hour ago, Hocigache said:

don't you think the chinese would make some sort of cheaper and easier equipement to sell to those countries illegaly in case those countries ban thos equipements?

The issue would be authenticating. Like a cellphone, the user equipment would need to be whitelisted.