The National Telecommunications Agency will decide next week to support Starlink for more than twice the amount of satellites in orbit over Brazil. The element was included in the agenda of the agency’s board meeting, which will be held on Thursday.
Starlink, by billionaire Elon Musk, already runs 4,400 satellites through which fast internet connections provide 335,000 customers in Brazil. This is equivalent to 60 % of the Internet of satellite, which makes the company’s leading company in this sector. The operator works with low -orbit satellites that provide high -speed internet and low Latên cia.
In December 2023, Starlink asked Anatel to authorize to apply 7500 additional second -generation satellites, using frequency domains in KA, KU and E – the latter, until then, do not use for this purpose. Almost a year later, in November 2024, Anatel and Appeals Badds proposed the draft exploitation law to be circulated by the Board of Directors, but the text was not placed in the vote.
In March of this year, the relationship of the process, Counselor Alexander Freiri, sparked some concerns and asked for more information to technical fields on topics that you classify as inherent in the Brazilian “digital sovereignty” and “electronic data security and data security”, as it was revealed Estadão/broadcast.
Among the topics subject to analysis is the possibility of Starlink without integration with national networks, which leads to the direct guidance of the Brazilian traffic through satellites, and thus outside the national judicial mandate. If this is confirmed, it is afraid that the company will be outside the field of inspection and Brazilian standards.
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Starlink’s growth also raised the opponent’s concerns. In the general advice by Anatel, they asked the organizational authority not to dismantle the Musk company request.
The SINDISAT Patriotic Union, a representative of Claaro, Hughes, SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat and HISPASAT, against support, on the basis that the new generation of satellites “is completely different” from the former, which requires a new license request, not the previous amendment.
Starlink requests a request to change the current right to exploit the non -involved satellite system to expand the number of approved satellites, update the satellite networks associated with the system, and add radio shelves.
