{"id":47849,"date":"2025-12-17T23:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airtel-africa-partners-with-starlink-for-direct-to-cell-service\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:41:04","slug":"airtel-africa-partners-with-starlink-for-direct-to-cell-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airtel-africa-partners-with-starlink-for-direct-to-cell-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Africa Partners With Starlink for Direct to Cell Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Airtel Africa<\/b> plans to bring <strong>Starlink<\/strong> Direct to Cell to its customers under a new partnership announced Tuesday. The telco will be the first mobile network operator in Africa to offer Starlink Direct to Cell service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Airtel Africa said that satellite-to-mobile service is set to begin in 2026 with data for select applications and text messaging. The rollout will proceed in line with country-specific regulatory approvals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirtel Africa remains committed to delivering great experience to our customers by improving access to reliable and contiguous mobile connectivity solutions. Starlink\u2019s Direct-to-Cell technology complements the terrestrial infrastructure and even reaches areas where deploying terrestrial network solutions are challenging,\u201d commented Airtel Africa Managing Director and CEO Sunil Taldar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Airtel Africa signed a separate agreement with Starlink in May of this year to bring Starlink\u2019s broadband internet service to its customers. The company operates in 14 markets in Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Airtel Africa is owned by Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel, which is also a backer of OneWeb and was one of the financiers to rescue the constellation from bankruptcy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starlink Direct to Cell service, which uses unique satellites within the Starlink constellation, is working with a number of mobile network operators around the world to offer satellite-to-cell service to consumers on their phones. It was first launched with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this year and recently went live in Ukraine with MNO Kyivstar and in Canada with Rogers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa plans to bring Starlink Direct to Cell to its customers under a new partnership announced Tuesday. The telco will be the first mobile network operator in Africa to offer Starlink Direct to Cell service.&nbsp; Airtel Africa said that satellite-to-mobile service is set to begin in 2026 with data for select applications and text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}