Starlink won’t remove Poland from Europe after all, days after Warsaw threatened to drop Ukraine’s funding
Starlink will not remove Poland from the European region of its satellite communications network. Janusz Cieszyński, a former Polish digital affairs minister, was the first to report the reversal.
Starlink has decided not to remove Poland from its European region of satellite communications, contrary to initial reports. This decision was made after backlash from Poland's digital affairs minister, Janusz Cieszyński, and the country's foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski. Sikorski had threatened to halt Poland's funding for Starlink in Ukraine, a country that heavily relies on the service during its war with Russia.
Poland subsidizes this service through its Ministry of Digital Affairs, spending approximately $50 million each year on it. Starlink's decision to keep Poland in its network comes after Elon Musk acknowledged the country's European Union membership on social media platform X.
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