{"id":771965,"date":"2026-02-18T05:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:57:13","slug":"vietnam-grants-elon-musks-spacex-license-for-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771965\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam grants Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX license for internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Starlink satellite service enters market as Vingroup launches rival provider<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260219 Elon Musk Starlink\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Elon\u00a0Musk, CEO\u00a0of SpaceX and Tesla, leaves after a launch\u00a0ceremony for Starlink&#8217;s internet service in Bali, Indonesia in May 2024. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>LIEN HOANG<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2026 12:13 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HO CHI MINH CITY &#8212; Vietnam granted Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX a radio frequency license, bringing the Starlink satellite internet service a step closer to launch in the one-party state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Starlink satellite service enters market as Vingroup launches rival provider Elon\u00a0Musk, CEO\u00a0of SpaceX and Tesla, leaves after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3844],"tags":[8866,21048,3082,4748,225765,70,413,1603,16,15,2150],"class_list":["post-771965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-elon","tag-grants","tag-internet","tag-license","tag-musks","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vietnam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116090099915420869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}