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Amazon launches satellite internet service in South Africa, seemingly overtaking Musk in his homeland.

Amazon launches satellite internet service in South Africa, seemingly overtaking Musk in his homeland.

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July 16th, 2026

Amazon launches satellite internet service in South Africa, seemingly overtaking Musk in his homeland.

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On Wednesday, Amazon announced that it will launch a new satellite internet service, 'Amazon Leo,' in South Africa in 2027, thereby positioning itself to secure business rights in Africa's most advanced economy ahead of Elon Musk's competing service, Starlink.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ, ์ž์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ 2027๋…„ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œ„์„ฑ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์„œ๋น„์Šค '์•„๋งˆ์กด ๋ ˆ์˜ค(Amazon Leo)'๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์—˜๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์ธ ์Šคํƒ€๋งํฌ(Starlink)๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์„ ์ง„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ถŒ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ถŒ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ง๋œ๋‹ค.

Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, announced that it will collaborate with South African internet provider Herotel to launch a new service in this country of 62 million people.

์ œํ”„ ๋ฒ ์ด์กฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์ œ๊ณต์—…์ฒด ํ—ค๋กœํ…”(Herotel)๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธ๊ตฌ 6200๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Amazon stated that this is its first satellite internet contract on the African continent.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๋Œ€๋ฅ™์—์„œ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์œ„์„ฑ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The financial details were not disclosed at this early stage.

์žฌ์ •์  ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

Amazon's announcement came after Musk had launched a scathing critique of his country of birth's government.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋Š” ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ถœ์ƒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‹ ๋ž„ํ•œ ๋น„ํŒ์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ดํ›„์— ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

The world's richest man has been vehemently condemning the government's racist stance, claiming that South African regulations prevented him from launching Starlink on the grounds of his being white.

์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ž๋Š” ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ๊ทœ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ฐฑ์ธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์Šคํƒ€๋งํฌ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„์  ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„๋‚œํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

He referred to South Africa's affirmative action policy, which requires foreign companies operating in the telecommunications sector to offer a minority stake in their local entity to black or other non-white owners in order to obtain a license.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์ ๊ทน์  ์šฐ๋Œ€ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์ •์ฑ…์€ ํ†ต์‹  ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋ฉดํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํ˜„์ง€ ๋ฒ•์ธ์˜ ์†Œ์ˆ˜ ์ง€๋ถ„์„ ํ‘์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„๋ฐฑ์ธ ์†Œ์œ ์ฃผ์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

This regulation was established to provide opportunities that were denied to non-white individuals under the former apartheid system of white minority rule.

์ด ๊ทœ์ •์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ฐฑ์ธ ์†Œ์ˆ˜ ํ†ต์น˜์˜ ์•„ํŒŒ๋ฅดํŠธํ—ค์ดํŠธ ์ฒด์ œ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ๋น„๋ฐฑ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งˆ๋ จ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The South African government supports the deal with Amazon, and Communications Minister Solly Malatsi participated in the contract announcement alongside representatives from Amazon and Herotel.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ์กด๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์†”๋ฆฌ ๋ง๋ผ์น˜(Solly Malatsi) ํ†ต์‹ ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์ด ์•„๋งˆ์กด ๋ฐ ํ—ค๋กœํ…” ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Amazon officially announced that it launched its first low-earth orbit internet satellites last year and that over 390 of them are currently in operation in orbit.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์ €๊ถค๋„ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์œ„์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ 390๊ธฐ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๊ถค๋„์—์„œ ์šด์˜ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Starlink's first operational satellite was launched in 2019, and there are now over 10,000 units in orbit.

์Šคํƒ€๋งํฌ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์šด์šฉ ์œ„์„ฑ์€ 2019๋…„์— ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ 1๋งŒ ๊ธฐ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๊ถค๋„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Starlink's satellite internet service has been launched in approximately 24 different African countries, yet Musk has persistently refused to comply with South Africa's affirmative action regulations.

์Šคํƒ€๋งํฌ์˜ ์œ„์„ฑ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋Š” ์•ฝ 24๊ฐœ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๋Š” ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์ ๊ทน์  ์šฐ๋Œ€ ์กฐ์น˜ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Amazon announced on Wednesday that its deal in South Africa is part of its efforts to expand operations across Africa, and that it will also collaborate with Vanu Inc., based in Lexington, Massachusetts, which specializes in mobile internet services for developing countries.

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ, ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ์ „์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํžˆ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋„์ƒ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ „๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์‚ฌ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ ์ฃผ ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด ์†Œ์žฌ ๋ฐ˜์œ (Vanu Inc.)์™€๋„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Africa, a continent with a population of approximately 1.5 billion, constitutes a substantial potential market for satellite internet, as a large proportion of its inhabitants reside in rural and other areas lacking fixed internet connections.

์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๋Š” ์•ฝ 15์–ต ๋ช…์˜ ์ธ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋Œ€๋ฅ™์œผ๋กœ, ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ์ • ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋†์ดŒ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ง€์—ญ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์œ„์„ฑ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์˜ ํฐ ์ž ์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Amazon Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) has already signed launch agreements in Thailand, Kazakhstan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay, as confirmed by announcements from the company and its collaborating local operators.

์•„๋งˆ์กด ๋ ˆ์˜ค(์ด์ „ ๋ช…์นญ: ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์นด์ดํผ)๋Š” ํƒœ๊ตญ, ์นด์žํ์Šคํƒ„, ํ˜ธ์ฃผ, ์•„๋ฅดํ—จํ‹ฐ๋‚˜, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์งˆ, ์น ๋ ˆ, ์ฝœ๋กฌ๋น„์•„, ์—์ฝฐ๋„๋ฅด, ํŽ˜๋ฃจ, ์šฐ๋ฃจ๊ณผ์ด์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ถœ์‹œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ํ•ด๋‹น ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ค‘์ธ ํ˜„์ง€ ์šด์˜์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

However, Starlink is far ahead, claiming to currently provide services in over 160 countries.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์Šคํƒ€๋งํฌ๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์•ž์„œ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ 160๊ฐœ๊ตญ ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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