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Musk's Starlink dealing with Indian security clearance for satellite broadband

Elon Musk's Starlink is looking for security clearance for a licence to use satellite broadband services in India and will get an authorization if it satisfies all conditions, the telecoms minister stated on Tuesday.

Starlink has actually been aiming to get in India for many years and its strategies got a major boost last month when New Delhi stated it wouldn't auction spectrum for satellite broadband but rather award it administratively - just as Musk desired. Competing Indian telecom billionaire Mukesh Ambani had wanted an auction.

Indian telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia stated on Tuesday that Starlink was in the process of acquiring security clearance, which needs it to please New Delhi that the company processes and stores information locally, and that its satellite signals are protected.

When you check all packages, you get the licence. If they ( Starlink) do that, we will be really happy, Scindia stated at an occasion in New Delhi.

Security clearance would take Starlink one step better to Musk's strategies to offer broadband to Indians, a market Ambani's. Dependence Jio presently dominates with 14 million wired. customers.

Ambani, Asia's wealthiest male, also has more than 479 million. Indian telecom users, however is worried that after investing $19. billion in airwave auctions, he now risks losing broadband. clients and potentially information and voice clients to Musk as. technology advances, Reuters has previously reported.

Reliance currently has security clearance to launch satellite. broadband services, according to a source with direct knowledge.

Starlink has actually told the Indian federal government it wants to. adhere to all of New Delhi's security requirements, stated. another source familiar of the matter.

After security clearance is gotten, business still require. to obtain spectrum to begin using satellite broadband. services.

Ambani once offered information totally free on his mobile strategies, and Musk. has actually adopted similarly aggressive techniques. In Kenya, Musk priced. Starlink at $10 each month, versus $120 in the United States,. disturbing regional telecom gamers.

(source: Reuters)