Amazon to launch its satellite internet in South Africa, seemingly be…

Amazon is launching its Kuiper satellite internet service in South Africa, moving ahead of Starlink in a competitive market for connectivity infrastructure in the region. The deployment signals Amazon's global expansion of its satellite broadband platform into emerging markets. Amazon just opened a market Starlink thought it owned. If you sell connectivity, backhaul, or network infrastructure into Africa or other emerging regions, you now have two billion-dollar buyers competing for your tech—and their speed matters more than Musk's timing.