Alec Hogg: German support for Musk’s Starlink dream

It's just gone two years since we arrived back home in SA so my Vodacom contract now entitles me to a new phone. In the excitement of upgrading to an iPhone 12, I incorrectly assumed all the info in my Google Authenticator App had been transferred across. It wasn't, which I only discovered this morning. Something for your memory bank..A new service you may enjoy: the market report in our BizNews Power Hour, is now delivered live at the top of our broadcast hour (6pm) rather than at the start of the show (5:30pm). That makes it more difficult to access for those relying on the recording. So we've stripped the market report out of the show and are now publishing it separately. We've also put it into a 6:30am slot on biznewsradio.com. Click here for last night's report..I've still got a request in for an interview with the most famous disruptive entrepreneur of them all. But Pretoria-raised Elon Musk is such a big deal in his adopted USA that interview requests from back home don't even warrant a response. No matter. All SAs are proud of the colourful fellow who is back in the news again after Germany signalled it is likely to become the first nation to financially support Starlink, Musk's idea of providing cheap, high speed internet from space. Click here for the story.In SA, we paid a heavy price for the ANC's "anyone but Mbeki" approach with nine awful years of Zuma. In the US, however, such was the mainstream media's disgust for Donald Trump that they rallied behind his presidential opponent and continue to be blinkered to his defects. The Wall Street Journal never fell in love with Joe Biden. It continues to point out his most obvious failings. Among them today's piece on the World Health Organisation, republished below, which concludes that Trump's decision to walk away from the WHO is "looking better every day.".PLEASE READ – FOR YOUR WSJ.COM ACCESS….As a Premium subscriber you are entitled to full membership of wsj.com (normal price $29 a month). Be sure to action your access through the Premium link on the BizNews website. Because of The Wall Street Journal's credential requirements, be sure to create a password which has at least 8 characters and includes at least one letter and one number – NB it MAY NOT contain any special characters (ie #, !, @ etc). To maintain access to WSJ.com, you MUST enter our partner's website via BizNews Premium at least once a month. A final PS, if you had previously signed up for WSJ you'll need to clear the cookies from your device. Our help desk can assist – support@biznews.com.Come into our virtual studio for BPH at 5:30pm.You can now access our flagship BizNews Power Hour show live via our virtual studio. First, subscribe to our YouTube channel – BizNews TV – and we'll send you the link just just before the 5:30pm kickoff..If you're on the move, the BPH is streamed worldwide on BizNewsradio.com. Live at 5:30pm; recordings at 7pm and 7am.

Alec Hogg: German support for Musk’s Starlink dream

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