The German government is paying for Ukraine to access the Eutelsat satellite service, as Europe is looking for alternatives for the respective Starlink satellite of Elon Musk. Eutelsat’s Managing Director, Eva Berneke, told Reuters that the company provided the high -speed internet satellite service in Ukraine for about a year through a German distributor. Speaking yesterday at the company’s headquarters in Paris, Berneke stressed that the benefit was funded by the German government, but refused to report the cost. The Managing Director of this French company said there are fewer than a thousand terminals connecting users to Ukraine to the Eutelsat network, much smaller than about 50,000 Starlink terminals that Kiev says it has in Ukrainian territory. However, Berneke stressed that she expects that the number of Eutelsat terminals in Ukraine will increase. “Now we are trying to reach between 5,000 and 10,000 (ed. […]
Source: News Beast
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