SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that his company is close to having 100 operational Starlink devices in Iran, referring to the company’s satellite internet receivers.
This came three months after a tweet in which Musk said he would activate the service there amid protests in the Islamic Republic.
“We are approaching 100 active Starlinks (devices) in Iran,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Monday.
The billionaire said in September that he would activate the Starlink service in Iran as part of a US-backed effort to “promote internet freedom and the free flow of information” for Iranians.
Satellite broadband service can help Iranians bypass government restrictions on accessing the internet and some social media platforms during the protests.
Protests erupted in the Islamic Republic following the death in September of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for wearing “indecent clothes”.
