Middle East gravitates into Starlink’s orbit
Saudi Arabia’s national airline, Saudia, is in advanced talks to equip its more than 140 aircraft with Starlink. If finalized, the agreement could mark Starlink’s most prominent win in the Gulf’s largest economy.
Welcome back to Al-Monitor FutureVerse.
This time last year, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink barely had a footprint in the Middle East, but as this past week showed, the billionaire’s brand is rapidly expanding in the region, and the skies above Saudi Arabia could be his next target. Plus, in this edition we look at Iran’s GPS gaps, China-Houthi technology ties, another crypto calamity and more.
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