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Elon Musk’s Starlink could soon provide satellite broadband services in India

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Elon Musk’s Starlink could soon provide satellite broadband services in India

[ad_1] After years of waiting, India may soon benefit from Elon Musk's Starlink. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO's satellite network has made the internet accessible to even the most remote parts of the world. It has helped provide crucial internet connectivity wirelessly in remote places, war-torn areas as well and places witnessing natural disasters. While Starlink is currently available in nearly 32 countries, users in India were kept away from its services, despite Musk being in talks with the Indian government for years.Now, if the latest report is to be believed, Starlink could soon offer broadband services in India. Starlink in IndiaAccording to a report by the New Indian Express, officials close to the matter revealed that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) officials will meet ...

Jio’s satellite unit favours auction, Airtel joins satcom firm to oppose the method

[ad_1] Jio Satellite Communications is the only satellite communication firm that has favoured auction for the allocation of spectrum while other players in the segment, including telecom operator Bharti Airtel, have opposed it.Elon Musk-owned SpaceX too has suggested an auction model but it is not for the auction of spectrum but bids in the form of a percentage of annual revenue as spectrum value fee in lieu of upfront currency bids. Jio Satellite Communications Limited (JSCL) in its counter-comment submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) toed the line of its sister concern Reliance Jio Infocomm to suggest auction as the best and legitimate method to allocate radiowaves frequencies. "We submit that JSCL supports an auction-based process for spectrum assignment fo...

Battle for satellite broadband: Elon Musk’s Starlink eyes India, Reliance Jio resists

[ad_1] Elon Musk is eager to bring his Starlink satellite broadband to India, but the world's richest man faces strong resistance from Mukesh Ambani, Asia's wealthiest, who runs Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio.Following a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the U.S. on Tuesday, Musk said he was keen to launch Starlink in India which "can be incredibly helpful" in remote villages that have no internet or lack high-speed services. What he didn't talk about is how Starlink is at odds with Ambani's Reliance over the government's distribution of satellite broadband spectrum, setting the stage for a battle between two of the world's richest men for satellite services in the world's most populous nation. Starlink is lobbying India to not auction the spectrum but just assign l...