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Amazon to launch satellite internet in South Africa, ostensibly outpacing Musk on his home turf.

Amazon to launch satellite internet in South Africa, ostensibly outpacing Musk on his home turf.

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July 16th, 2026

Amazon to launch satellite internet in South Africa, ostensibly outpacing Musk on his home turf.

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Amazon announced on Wednesday that the technology conglomerate will deploy its nascent satellite internet service, Amazon Leo, in South Africa by 2027, ostensibly positioning itself ahead of Elon Musks competing Starlink to secure a foothold in Africas most sophisticated economy.

亚马逊于周三宣布,这家科技巨头在2027年前于南非部署其新兴的卫星互联网服务Amazon Leo表面上旨在领先于埃隆·马斯克旗下的竞争性服务Starlink,从而在非洲最发达的经济体占据一席之地

Amazon, the e-commerce behemoth founded by Jeff Bezos, has announced a strategic partnership with South African internet service provider Herotel to roll out a novel service in the nation of 62 million people, thereby securing its inaugural satellite internet agreement on the African continent.

由杰夫·贝佐斯创立的电商巨头亚马逊宣布与南非互联网服务提供商Herotel建立战略合作伙伴关系在拥有6200万人口的该国推出一项全新服务,从而在非洲大陆达成了其首份卫星互联网协议

No pecuniary particulars were initially divulged.

最初并未披露任何财务细节

Amazons announcement follows Musks acerbic censure of the government in his country of birth.

亚马逊的公告紧随马斯克对其出生国政府的尖刻谴责之后。

The worlds wealthiest individual has asserted that South African regulatory frameworks have precluded him from deploying Starlink there on account of his ethnicity, and has levelled accusations of systemic racism against the administration.

这位全球首富声称南非的监管框架因其种族背景阻止他在该国部署Starlink,并对政府提出了系统性种族主义的指控。

His remarks pertained to South Africa's affirmative action policies, which mandate that foreign enterprises operating within the communications sector cede a minority equity stake in their local subsidiaries to Black or other non-white proprietors as a prerequisite for obtaining a license.

他的言论涉及南非的平权政策该政策规定在通信领域运营的外国企业,须将其当地子公司的少数股权让渡给黑人或其他非白人所有者,以此作为获取许可证的先决条件。

The regulations are designed to redress historical inequities by affording opportunities that were systematically withheld from non-white individuals under the countrys erstwhile apartheid regime, a system predicated on white minority rule.

这些法规旨在纠正历史不公,通过提供那些在该国昔日以白人少数统治为基础的种族隔离制度下被系统性地剥夺给非白人群体的机会来实现。

The South African government has unequivocally endorsed the Amazon agreement, with Communications Minister Solly Malatsi joining representatives from Amazon and Herotel to jointly announce the accord.

南非政府已明确表示支持亚马逊协议通信部长索利·马拉齐与亚马逊及Herotel的代表共同宣布了该协议

Amazon deployed its inaugural constellation of low-Earth-orbit internet satellites last year and now asserts that over 390 of these units are currently operational.

亚马逊于去年部署了其首批低地球轨道互联网卫星星座,并宣称目前已有超过390颗此类卫星投入运行

Starlinks inaugural operational satellites were deployed in 2019, and the constellation now exceeds 10,000 units in orbit.

Starlink的首批运营卫星于2019年部署,如今该星座在轨数量已逾一万颗

While the satellite internet service has been launched in approximately two dozen other African nations, Musk has declined to comply with South Africas affirmative action regulations.

尽管该卫星互联网服务在约二十余个其他非洲国家推出,但马斯克拒绝遵守南非的平权法案规定。

Amazon announced on Wednesday that its venture in South Africa marks the commencement of its broader expansion strategy across the African continent, wherein it will also collaborate with Vanu Inc., a Lexington, Massachusetts-based enterprise that specialises in mobile internet connectivity within developing nations.

亚马逊于周三宣布其在南非的业务标志着其横跨非洲大陆的更广泛扩张战略的开端,其中它还将与Vanu Inc.合作,这是一家总部位于马萨诸塞州列克星敦的企业专门从事发展中国家移动互联网连接业务。

The latent market for satellite-based internet connectivity in Africaa continent comprising over 1.5 billion inhabitants, a substantial proportion of whom reside in rural or otherwise underserved locales devoid of fixed broadband infrastructurerepresents a vast and largely untapped commercial opportunity.

非洲——一个拥有超过15亿人口的大陆,其中相当一部分居民生活在缺乏固定宽带基础设施的农村或其他服务不足地区——对基于卫星的互联网连接所存在的潜在市场代表着一个广阔且基本未被开发的商业机遇

Per the joint announcements from the company and the local operators with which it is collaborating, Amazon Leopreviously denominated Project Kuiperhas already concluded agreements to initiate services across Thailand, Kazakhstan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.

根据该公司及其合作的地方运营商联合发布的公告,Amazon Leo——此前被称为Project Kuiper——已达成协议,将在泰国哈萨克斯坦澳大利亚阿根廷巴西智利哥伦比亚厄瓜多尔秘鲁和乌拉圭启动服务

Starlink, however, maintains a commanding lead, asserting that it now operates in more than 160 countries.

然而Starlink保持着压倒性领先优势宣称其业务现已覆盖超过160个国家

July 16th, 2026

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