{"id":6359,"date":"2025-10-10T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:56:33","slug":"a-new-digital-era-for-pakistan-amazons-project-kuiper-to-go-live-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/10\/a-new-digital-era-for-pakistan-amazons-project-kuiper-to-go-live-in-2026","title":{"rendered":"A new digital era for Pakistan: Amazon\u2019s project Kuiper to go live in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"467\"><strong data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"256\">Islamabad:<\/strong> The era of slow internet and poor connectivity in Pakistan is coming to an end, as global tech giant <strong data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"368\">Amazon<\/strong> is set to introduce its <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"439\">Project Kuiper satellite broadband service<\/strong> in the country next year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"700\">Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication <strong data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"539\">Shaza Fatima Khawaja<\/strong> emphasized the importance of this initiative during a meeting with a <strong data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"638\">Project Kuiper delegation<\/strong>, calling it a \u201cmilestone for Pakistan\u2019s digital ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"983\">The project, which utilizes <strong data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"776\">Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology<\/strong>, aims to provide <strong data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"824\">high-speed internet access<\/strong> across both rural and urban areas of Pakistan by the <strong data-start=\"878\" data-end=\"893\">end of 2026<\/strong>, especially in regions where conventional internet services remain weak or unavailable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1216\">Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja stated that Project Kuiper would play a vital role in advancing Pakistan\u2019s digital vision \u2014 <strong data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1136\">\u201cDigital Nation Pakistan\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 by ensuring affordable, fast, and secure internet access for every citizen.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1523\">Under the initiative, <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1260\">3,236 satellites<\/strong> will be deployed in Earth\u2019s orbit, delivering connectivity through advanced and low-cost internet terminals. The service is expected to offer speeds of up to <strong data-start=\"1419\" data-end=\"1453\">400 megabits per second (Mbps)<\/strong>, promising a major transformation in Pakistan\u2019s internet landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The era of slow internet and poor connectivity in Pakistan is coming to an end, as global tech giant Amazon is set to introduce its Project Kuiper satellite broadband service in the country next year. Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja emphasized the importance of this initiative during a meeting with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3644,3645,160,3643,3642,3641,2294],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-digital-nation-pakistan","tag-end-of-2026","tag-headline","tag-high-speed-internet-access","tag-low-earth-orbit","tag-project-kuiper-satellite-broadband-service","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}