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‘Can’t live without it’: alarm at Musk’s Starlink dominance in Brazil’s Amazon

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Starlink claims to have more than 250,000 clients in Brazil , up from fewer than 20,000 in February 2023 .

Nearly 70,000 of those dishes are in the Amazon where the company operates in more than 90% of municipalities.

Elon Musk’s social network X was blocked in Brazil last week .

Starlink has more than 3 million customers in nearly 100 countries.

The technology has proved how valuable it can be to a nation state.

There are more than 42,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine where they are used by the military, doctors and energy workers.

There have been multiple reports of tensions between Starlink and the Ukrainian military over the boundaries of its use.

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