Falkland Island’s Starlink adoption progress in November – December 2024

KEMH hospital in Stanley, Falkland Islands

This post shows the public updates in November and December 2024 in regards to the adoption of Starlink in the Falkland Islands.

For new readers who are unfamiliar with the reasons as to why a £5,400 annual licence fee and an exceedingly complex licence process were implemented to prevent VSAT usage on the Falkland Islands, they might like to review a previous  OpenFalklands post, LEOs and VSAT legislation in the Falkland Islands .

Please review the previous ten publications on OpenFalklands for the full history of Starlink issues in the islands.

In late November 2014, the new Communications Regulator, Chloe Freeman, posted the following statement, which can be downloaded here.

This outlines some practical steps that lead towards the regulation changes requested by the Starlink Select Committee.

2nd December 2024: KMEH hospital’s trial use of a Starlink Terminal. (Published with the kind permission of FITV)

6th December Penguin News (With kind permission of Penguin News.

Chloe Freeman’s views on the VSAT licensing pause (Published with the kind permission of FITV).