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  "id": 19337827,
  "title": "Vodacom targets satellite-to-phone service in South Africa next year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/vodacom-targets-satellite-to-phone-service-in-south-africa-next-year",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-10T13:05:04.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/vodacom-satellite-to-phone-service-south-africa/288234/"
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  "summary": "Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won't work on 2G and 3G phones.",
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "SNL has a new impression of Elon Musk, ‘the worst thing South Africa has ever done’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/snl-has-a-new-impression-of-elon-musk-the-worst-thing-south-africa",
        "published": "2026-11-08T18:00:04.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}