Da Santo Graal A Kryptonite. In three months. Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internetpassed Technological solution for all Italy connection problems with one of the alternatives on the tableof a thousand awards. It is the reorganization of the To the right of Fratelli d’Italia to the governmentwho, after spreading red carpets to the founder of Tesla, hurried to rinse them back, thanks to the relationships between Europe and the United States, the local industrial problems and the hurry that are credited alongside the entrepreneur of South African descent. Two examples about everyone.
First. On March 13, answering a few questions in the Senate, the Minister of Relations with parliament, Luca Ciriani, aware of the brothers of Italysaid that “Some experiments started with Starlink -Satelling systems in the diplomatic offices in Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Iran, who were therefore Equipped with Starlink -antennas, even if none is active so far“. The SpaceX satellite system, Musk’s Space Company, is not used. And the rules, according to Ciriani, are” “The antennas are only activated to test their operation and are then suspended with the aim of only reactivating them where necessary“.
Second. Twenty -four hours later, on March 14, Aria, the public company of purchasing from the Lombardije region, I. names of the companies that participated in the tender experimentation The satellite internet in Lombardy And enter the connecting holes. A call considered the viaticum for Starlink in the field of public purchasing. But the name of the service of Musk is not there. They have submitted offers Two small internet operators, Mgh Systems and Sirius technology. Than AcanthoParticipated by the Bolognese Group of Energy and Waste Hera. Finally two ropes, led by respectively Fastweb e da fibercopThe group in which Tim’s network is transferred. Of the other members of the groups of companies, Air currently does not mention a name. A sign that if Starlink is among them, as expected by the president of the region, Attilio Fontana, for the time being, we prefer not to expose it.
Starlink, satellite internet and Italy
If Starlink supplies are only dependent on technological assessments, this would not have started. Even if it was only for The unsurpassed number of satellites in a job: seven thousand In February 2025. But on the choice to include the SpaceX service in the team of which documents can be entrusted to other factors to other factors, as important as technology: Politics, economy, international balances. As soon as the dust from the media calls, the criteria arise that the telecommunications match is confronted.
Starlink is not new to contact the Italian authorities. Because it offers its service to families and companies, she has made direct contacts with the Ministry of Business and in Italy, which supervises the sector. And who has The management of frequencies between Tim and Starlink has been mediated In April 2024, the subject of a dispute. Starlink has in the same weeks An agreement with Telespazio has been completedA company participated in 67% by Leonardo (the largest Italian weapon producer) and 33% by Thales (French defense group), who integrated the Satellite Internet of Musk into his telecommunications services.
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