en.Wedoany.com Reported - Amazon has applied to the Communications Authority of Kenya for a license to operate communication infrastructure and a 15-year international gateway license, planning to build ground station facilities in the country to support its low Earth orbit satellite network.

Amazon submitted the application to the regulator through its local subsidiary, Amazon Kuiper Kenya Limited. The company has not yet disclosed the specific locations for the proposed ground stations.

The project, previously known as Project Kuiper, has been renamed Amazon Leo. As Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite internet service, it already has hundreds of satellites in orbit, with a final deployment target of over 3,300 satellites. Amazon previously stated that it plans to build more than 300 ground stations worldwide to support the network.

If approved, these ground stations would be the first facilities for Amazon Leo services in Africa. However, its cloud services arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has previously provided ground station-related services to customers in Cape Town, South Africa, with operations launched in 2020. Additionally, satellite communications company Globalstar, which is being acquired by Amazon, has African satellite gateways in Gabon, Rwanda, and Botswana.

Amazon has signed Leo service agreements with Vodafone, Vodacom, Verizon, NBN Co., Vrio, Delta Airlines, and JetBlue, among others. In the mining sector, an agreement between AWS and mining company Gold Fields mentions using Leo services to provide network connectivity to remote mining sites.

On the competitive front, low Earth orbit satellite operator Starlink built a ground station site in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2025, which may be located within IXAfrica's facilities. Kenya's primary teleport is the Broglio Space Center, located approximately 115 kilometers north of Mombasa, near Malindi.

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