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Post by GO30 on Jul 10, 2024 13:39:13 GMT 12
Just chatting to a custy in Tonga who was told yesterday Tonga has asked Elon to turn Starlink off to Tonga.
I'm told Vanuatu you need a permit to use Starlink and they are not easy to get.
Anyone have any idea why?
It has been suggested it is to protect local providers but it seems in doing so the collateral damage maybe quite wide. Custy is quite concerned his interweb will cease at any moment even though he is a cruising yacht just visiting.
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Jul 10, 2024 13:57:22 GMT 12
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Post by dutyfree on Jul 10, 2024 13:57:22 GMT 12
I think Elon will just say GGF
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Post by em on Jul 10, 2024 18:16:14 GMT 12
That’s a bit shortsighted , many cruisers will not go there if starlink is not available
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Post by Cantab on Jul 10, 2024 18:34:24 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on Jul 11, 2024 14:28:19 GMT 12
Yeap strange but isn't that the days we now live in?
One cruiser who had left Tonga 2days ago got a message to me this am along the lines of 'No web but we're far enough away it's coming back again'. That maybe just coincidence but then maybe not.
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Jul 16, 2024 0:29:16 GMT 12
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Post by dutyfree on Jul 16, 2024 0:29:16 GMT 12
Just need to pay Tonga $200 koha apparently for a licence
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 16, 2024 9:08:31 GMT 12
Just chatting to a custy in Tonga who was told yesterday Tonga has asked Elon to turn Starlink off to Tonga.
I'm told Vanuatu you need a permit to use Starlink and they are not easy to get.
Anyone have any idea why?
It has been suggested it is to protect local providers but it seems in doing so the collateral damage maybe quite wide. Custy is quite concerned his interweb will cease at any moment even though he is a cruising yacht just visiting.
Don't know about Tonga but in Vanuatu Starlink was alive and well last season. There was an issue between the Vanuatu govt and Starlink over airwave rights, ie $$'s, but did not impact on cruisers and I understood was resolved last year.
Musk donated a whole heap of Starlink units for community use after the Tongan eruption fibre cable was broken and all the royal family members kept them for their own use!
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Post by GO30 on Jul 16, 2024 13:18:11 GMT 12
Just need to pay Tonga $200 koha apparently for a licence Tonga has seen Vanuatu do it and jumped aboard probably. I'd expect more to jump on now.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 16, 2024 13:22:13 GMT 12
Just chatting to a custy in Tonga who was told yesterday Tonga has asked Elon to turn Starlink off to Tonga.
I'm told Vanuatu you need a permit to use Starlink and they are not easy to get.
Anyone have any idea why?
It has been suggested it is to protect local providers but it seems in doing so the collateral damage maybe quite wide. Custy is quite concerned his interweb will cease at any moment even though he is a cruising yacht just visiting.
Don't know about Tonga but in Vanuatu Starlink was alive and well last season. There was an issue between the Vanuatu govt and Starlink over airwave rights, ie $$'s, but did not impact on cruisers and I understood was resolved last year.
Musk donated a whole heap of Starlink units for community use after the Tongan eruption fibre cable was broken and all the royal family members kept them for their own use!
A cruiser who was in Tonga said their starlink service had turned to shit as the change was happening but he was leaving for Fiji so wasn't too concerned.
Don't know how it works but you'd think if a country got turned off it would be a regional thing affecting all inside it. But then if they can confine signals to specific parts of the Ukraine war zone then maybe they make the signal area very geographically constrained to small areas.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 21, 2024 15:42:18 GMT 12
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Post by harrytom on Jul 21, 2024 15:53:48 GMT 12
And how did crusiers ever get on before technology arrived?  |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 22, 2024 9:16:05 GMT 12
But note distance cruisers - Vanuatu is saying anyone arriving with Starlink gear could have it confiscated. That is apparently in play right now. Anyone heard of anyone having any Starlink gear grabbed by Vanuatu? They were saying this was a possibility in Vanuatu last year but nothing happened to all those using Starlink , nad who is going to know anyway. When we arrived in Port Vila and after many calls on the VHF for clearance Customs finally answered and somewhat apologetically asked if we could dinghy over to their office as the outboard on their dinghy was, and probably still is, broken  |
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Post by GO30 on Jul 22, 2024 12:41:41 GMT 12
I'd expect cruisers to be OK and think the whoha is more about land based systems.
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 29, 2024 11:04:54 GMT 12
I'd expect cruisers to be OK and think the whoha is more about land based systems. excerpt Why would a Government deprive its citizens of a vital service?
Some internet users criticise what they see as the government’s reluctance to allow Starlink in Tonga, arguing it is trying to protect its own state-owned telecommunications companies. …
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Post by em on Jul 29, 2024 11:50:00 GMT 12
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