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Starlink Snags $90M Deal to Provide Free Internet In Mexico

The contract, which extends through 2026, is expected to offer connectivity to 10,000 residents in remote regions.

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Starlink Snags $90M Deal to Provide Free Internet In Mexico​

The contract, which extends through 2026, is expected to offer connectivity to 10,000 residents in remote regions.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink has signed a 1.56 billion peso ($89.80 million) contract with Mexico to offer internet and phone services in remote regions. The deal is expected to improve connectivity for 10,000 individual users and boost the country’s overall cybersecurity capabilities.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO) and the country’s digital strategy coordinator, Carlos Emiliano Calderon, announced the partnership during a morning press conference Wednesday. AMLO said the contract will enable Mexico to achieve near-total internet coverage nationwide by guaranteeing connectivity to 94% of residents. Users across the country will be able to take advantage of Starlink’s satellite internet services and a new direct-to-cell service that enables calls and text messages. The latter is expected to arrive as early as next year.

The deal is made possible by Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (TEIT), or Telecommunications and Internet for All, a project under Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission. TEIT began as a partnership with SES, a Luxembourg-based Starlink rival working to expand global connectivity via satellite. TEIT and SES brought data services to 400 remote communities across Mexico in September via the high-throughput SES-17 Ka-band satellite.

Credit: Starlink

Now, by looping in a slew of additional connectivity partners, TEIT plans to offer 4G and 5G connections to roughly 57 million Mexico residents. Starlink will work alongside Apco Networks, Axess, GSAT, Next Telekom, Tangerine Electronics, Televera Red, Viasat, and Hispasat under the TEIT umbrella through 2026.

Despite the deal’s hefty sticker price, Calderon said Starlink’s offer was the lowest bid available. Even still, the partnership will be subsidized via slight increases to tolls on federally-owned roads. Acapulco will be the only exception due to the community’s financial and infrastructural struggles following October’s Hurricane Otis.

The Mexico Institute, a non-governmental, nonprofit organization focused on improving cooperation between Mexico and the United States, appears to view the country’s deal with Starlink positively. "If the U.S. and Mexico want to strengthen commercial ties, Mexico has to prevent being the weakest link in terms of cybersecurity and assure its partners that it can respond and recuperate from cyber threats and attacks," Lila Abed, the organization’s deputy director, told IoT World Today.