The meeting is part of the agenda of a technical mission to the United States led by the Brazilian Ministry of Communications, which began on Friday (12). Minister Fabio Faria met Musk and the president and chief operating officer at space transportation company SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, in Austin on Monday (15). Quoted in a statement from the MCom, Musk celebrated the opportunity. “We are looking forward to be able to providing connectivity for the less connected,” the magnate said. In a previous US visit in 2021, the government met the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to request $1 billion in funding for investment projects to support a plan to deliver connectivity to the digitally excluded in the North of the country. Millions of Brazilians are still lacking access to the Internet in Brazil, according to government figures. Lack of interest and technical knowledge to go online were cited among the main barriers for those who remain unconnected.
