Elon Musk’s Starlink network recently approved has begun sale in Nigeria and it is not cheap.
Nigerians will have to pay $600 to be able to use Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service in the country.
Nigerians will have to pay a black-market price of N438,000, N730 to $1, or the official rate of N269,130, N448 to $, to acquire the setup hardware.
The subscription to the service would cost $43 per month, which is about N31,000 or N19,287.
Starlink, a broadband from Musk with the aim to sell internet connections to every part of the world through private satellites orbiting in low earth.
The company said Nigerians can pre-order the $600 hardware as it prepares to launch this year but stated that its rollout is now “pending regulatory approval.”
Recall that, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had noted that some administrative issues were delaying Starlink’s scheduled launch.
