19 December 2023

Zambia has connected the country’s first school - Kalomo Secondary School in the Southern province – to Starlink, some four months after it was granted permission to operate.

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority enabled the moment by donating a Starlink kit and 20 laptops to the school. The link at the school with 2,000 students has the capacity to give internet connectivity to 200 devices at a speed of roughly 180Gbps.

“Our children must be empowered with education tools to steer their education path,” said Felix Mutati, minister of science and technology. He added that such agreements with the business sector were in accordance with the new government’s policies of providing public institutions with accessible and fast internet services.