The mountainous commune of Son Dien is about to have Starlink satellite Internet equipment installed, overcoming the winding mountainous terrain, dangerous mountain passes, and eliminating wave depressions.

On November 5, Son Dien Commune People's Committee said that the Department of Science and Technology of Lam Dong province, FPT Telecom and the locality had just surveyed the expected location of satellite Internet deployment in the area.

It is expected that a set of Starlink satellite Internet equipment will be placed in the commune's signal concave area. The specific location is awaiting agreement, after carefully evaluating technical conditions including power source, installation site, signal reception ability and equipment safety conditions.

According to Son Dien Commune People's Committee, the deployment of equipment is to supplement Internet connection solutions in areas with difficult telecommunications infrastructure, serving the work of direction, administration, natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue and digital transformation.

Son Dien commune is larger than 261 km2; Population of 7,310 people with nearly 95% being ethnic minorities. The commune is completely separate from the remaining communes in the province, with a single road, National Highway 28. Many areas are flooded due to the hidden mountainous terrain and winding steep hills, especially on Gia Bac Pass on National Highway 28, where landslides often occur, posing many potential risks.

Commune voters have repeatedly reflected and recommended upgrading telecommunications infrastructure, overcoming the problem of mobile signals, and improving the quality of telecommunications and Internet services in the commune, especially on mountain passes.

In July, the province's interdisciplinary team also surveyed and determined that on National Highway 28 in Son Dien commune, there were 7 wave concave locations. VNPT Lam Dong has overcome 2 positions. The remaining 5 positions are being deployed by telecommunications businesses and are expected to be completed this year.

Son Dien commune currently has three telecommunications service providers including VNPT, Viettel and MobiFone with a total of 14 mobile information receiving and broadcasting stations, and Starlink is a new service.

In Vietnam, Starlink was licensed by the Ministry of Science and Technology to provide satellite telecommunications services in February. In the first phase, the service was deployed with four gateway stations and up to 600,000 terminals.

According to experts, Starlink is an effective backup channel when the ground network system has problems in natural disasters, thanks to providing broadband Internet at sea, in the air and in especially difficult areas, where fixed and mobile networks are difficult to reach.

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