Starlink rejection ‘not convincing’

Independent Patriots for Change shadow minister of information and communication technology John-Louw Mouton has questioned the rationale behind the rejection of Starlink’s licence application.

On Monday, Starlink applied for a reconsideration of Cran’s decision to reject its licence application.

The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) confirmed on Monday evening that it had received a reconsideration application from Starlink, along with 624 applications from members of the public and other interested parties.

“This is a double standard as Huawei provides us with telecommunications infrastructure like 5G. Huawei has been accused of sharing sensitive data from servers installed at the African Union buildings.

If data privacy was really the concern, it would apply to all companies that deal with our telecommunications and software infrastructure,” Mouton told The Namibian on Monday.