US entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has waived the Starlink subscription fee in Iran amid protests, TASS reported citing Bloomberg.
A person familiar with Starlink’s operations confirmed the free service, while asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public, the news agency noted.
According to the NetBlocks Internet monitoring service, Iran has been without Internet access for over 96 hours. On January 9, the Iranian Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies said that it was taking measures to bring the country back online.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on January 12 that the government had blocked access to the Internet during protests due to foreign-orchestrated terrorist operations.
