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Sri Lanka gives preliminary approval to Musk's Starlink

June 06, 2024 at 08:19 am

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka has given Elon Musk's Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, preliminary approval to provide internet services there, the president's office said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka fast-tracked the approval process after Musk met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe last month in Indonesia on the sidelines of the 10th World Water Forum.

Sri Lanka's telecommunications regulator gave preliminary approval after a public consultation, the president's office said in a short statement.

Musk and Wickremesinghe had discussed ways to expand internet connectivity in rural Sri Lanka and potential collaboration on renewable energy, the president's office said.

(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe; Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Kevin Liffey)

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Mr. Elon R. Musk is a Chief Executive Officer at The Boring Co., a Technoking of Tesla at Tesla, Inc., a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Space Exploration Technologies Corp., a Chief Executive & Technology Officer at Spacex SA and a Co-Chairman at OpenAir, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Tesla, Inc., Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. and Musk Foundation. Mr. Musk was previously employed as a Trustee by California Institute of Technology, a Chairman by SolarCity Corp., a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer by PayPal, Inc., a Founder by Zip2 Corp., a Co-Founder by Neuralink Corp., a Co-Founder by OpenAI, Inc., a Non-Executive Director by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., and a Trustee by X PRIZE Foundation. He also served on the board at Everdream Corp. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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