Starlink Is in 223 Countries, but in India and Ukraine Its IP Addresses Sit Almost Unused

Starlink lists 17,408 IPv4 addresses for India. On an average day between October 4 and 31, 2026, seven of them were in use. In Ukraine, the space Starlink lists nearly quadrupled in a year, to 29,696 addresses, but only 1,161 of them, about 4%, were in use. India is still waiting for final approvals for Starlink, and in February Ukraine cut off unregistered dishes. IPv4 addresses are scarce, and Starlink buys most of its blocks second-hand, so each block it lists for a country is a deliberate