{"id":150504,"date":"2025-07-02T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150504"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:56:29","slug":"ranil-thanks-elon-musk-for-enabling-starlink-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/02\/ranil-thanks-elon-musk-for-enabling-starlink-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil thanks Elon Musk for enabling Starlink in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, July 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has thanked Elon Musk for enabling Starlink satellite internet access for all Sri Lankans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, he said, &#8220;This marks a significant step forward in the digital transformation of our nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wickremesinghe said he was looking forward to meeting Elon Musk soon to explore further advancements for Sri Lanka\u2019s digital future.<br><br>Wickremesinghe during a meeting with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in 2024 discussed launching the Starlink satellite internet service in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, July 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has thanked Elon Musk for enabling Starlink satellite internet access for all Sri Lankans.&nbsp; In a post on X, he said, &#8220;This marks a significant step forward in the digital transformation of our nation.&#8221; Wickremesinghe said he was looking forward to meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}