Starlink said Tuesday that rural schools across Argentina completed their first high-speed internet video call, a milestone in a project to connect 6,000 schools after students previously had to travel about 30 kilometres to get online.
Students and teachers joined the call with Argentina’s Ministry of Human Capital, experiencing high-speed internet in their classrooms for the first time, with reliable connectivity for remote learning and digital activities.
The milestone follows a September 8 announcement that Starlink would supply 6,000 kits to rural schools nationwide in partnership with the Ministry of Human Capital and ENACOM, Argentina’s communications regulator. Teachers can now build lesson plans around digital resources, while students join online classes and use digital tools from their classrooms. The company says thousands of students and teachers stand to benefit as the kits reach classrooms.
For the schools involved, the change is stark. A trip of about 30 kilometres just to reach an internet connection has been replaced by classroom connectivity fast enough for live video, giving students and teachers the same digital footing as schools in connected cities.
Argentina is the latest stop in a busy stretch for the satellite service. Starlink recently switched on residential service in the United Arab Emirates, launched Starlink Mobile in Costa Rica and brought cabin Wi-Fi to Austrian Airlines flights out of Vienna.
Going from a 30-kilometre trip to a classroom connection is the kind of change that shows where satellite internet matters most, in schools that never had a reliable link at all. For thousands of students, the classroom is now the connection.
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