Asunción, Agencia IP.- Nicolás García Boccia highlighted as “very important” that the National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) grants the license to provide services for the transmission of data and access to the Internet in Paraguay to the enterprise Starlink.
García is the first Paraguayan who worked in the technology and social media conglomerate Meta, specifically in WhatsApp, in charge of designing products. After the news that the company Starlink would arrive to Paraguay, he stated that this “can mean a historical milestone that can bring an incredible amount of benefits for a country with such a large connectivity deficit”.
“This enormous digital gap in rural areas can finally be closed, and to open the creative economy to the world, impulse the education and remote work, foment the technological innovation and, above all, to be a precedent for more enterprises of the same calibre as Starlink can come and invest in our country”, said García in his official X account.
Yesterday, the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, gave the news through his X account: “Welcome @Starlink of @ElonMusk to Paraguay. To connect all of our territories to the digital world is a key step to achieve our Government’s goal”, said the President.
He added that “connectivity to the internet is more than technology; it is also inclusion, opportunities and quality of life for all the Paraguayans no matter where they are”.
Likewise, the Minister of Technologies of Information and Communication (Mitic), Gustavo Villate, celebrated the “important milestone that will allow to connect to quality internet to the whole Paraguayan territory, reducing the digital breach so we can all have the same opportunities and benefits of the digital world in education, health, security and economic development”.
Starlink is an enterprise that started as a project of SpaceX created by Elon Musk. It operates a constellation of satellites in non-geostationary orbit, intending to provide high-speed Internet access and global coverage.
Currently, the SpaceX network has over 3,000 satellites functioning, making it a viable solution for the Internet to reach remote areas such as the Paraguayan Chaco, where connectivity is limited or non-existent. The user terminals provided by Starlink are compact and easy to use, which will facilitate its adoption in communities needing Internet access.