Mubashar Hasan
On March 25, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government Mohammad Yunus announced that a commercial deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet network Starlink is expected to be reached within 90 days to provide internet services to Bangladesh.
According to Shafiqul Alam, Yunus’ press secretary, economic reasons underlie the decision to seal the deal. The creation of jobs and providing uninterrupted support to the global digital outsourcing industry, which provides livelihoods to many Bangladeshi freelancers, is a priority of the interim government.
“Last year, during the student-led people’s uprising, the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina imposed an internet blackout for 11 days in Bangladesh., and thousands of Bangladeshi freelancers were hurt as they could not work,” Shafiqul told The Diplomat.
The interim government “does not want a repeat of that type of situation,” he said.
“We will make sure that through Starlink a freelancer even from a village in Bangladesh can benefit from the uninterrupted internet.”
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