Starlink now connects more than 5 million people across 125 countries, territories and many other markets

Starlink serves millions of customers around the globe with high-speed, low-latency internet. Back in September 2024, Starlink had 4 million subscribers around the world and today the company has officially announced via X platform that Starlink is connecting more than 5 million people with high-speed internet across 125 countries, territories, and many other markets around the world. Elon Musk has also reshared this news via his X account.

Starlink now connects over 5M people in 125 countries! https://t.co/Q6IS3c70jj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 28, 2025

Till now SpaceX has completed more than 200 Starlink launches, placing more than 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbit. Starlink is said to provide fast, reliable, and affordable internet to the users. In its Progress Report 2024, the company revealed that people are using Starlink for advancing conservation efforts, improving education, fostering entrepreneurship in remote areas, supporting small business needs, driving scientific discovery, enhancing responses to disaster relief efforts, expanding access to healthcare, supporting sustainable farming, facilitating work from anywhere lifestyles and even encouraging reverse migration to rural areas.

Beyond these land-based applications, Starlink is also said to meet the demands of aviation, rail, and maritime industries as well as supporting communication needs in space exploration. Starlink’s new generation of satellites and terminals are enhancing global internet access. Starlink V2 Mini design and Falcon 9’s increased launch cadence enabled the company to add more than 300,000 Gbps of capacity to the network and row the number of Starlink customers from 2 million to more than 4.6 million in 2024.

Starlink is the world’s first operator that delivers broadband internet capable of supporting streaming, online gaming, video calls, and more. Starlink’s Direct Cell partners that offer reciprocal access across all partner nations include- T-Mobile (USA), Optus (Australia), Rogers (Canada), One NZ (New Zealand), KDDI (Japan), Salt (Switzerland), Entel (Chile), Entel (Peru) and Kyivstar, among others.