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SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India (behindtheblack.com) 26

schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after India's government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also apparently completed negotiations with SpaceX to allow it to sell Starlink in India based on these rules. Business Today reports: "According to sources, the DoT [Department of Transportation] granted the LoI [Letter of Intent] after Starlink accepted 29 strict security conditions, including requirements for real-time terminal tracking, mandatory local data processing, legal interception capabilities, and localisation of at least 20% of its ground segment infrastructure within the first few years of operation.

Starlink's nod came amid heightened national security sensitivities, coinciding with India's pre-dawn Operation Sindoor strikes on terror camps across the border in response to the Pahalgam massacre. However, DoT officials clarified that the decision to approve Starlink was independent of these military developments." At the moment SpaceX's chief competitors, OneWeb and Amazon's Kuiper constellation, have not yet obtained the same permissions. This allows SpaceX to grab a large portion of the market share in India before either of these other companies.

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SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India

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  • Why Starlink? (Score:2, Informative)

    by hyades1 ( 1149581 )

    Has everybody already forgotten how Musk directly threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink, thus partially blinding their armed forces trying to repel Russian invaders? Why would any government rely on a satellite/data network controlled by a petulant child-man who might turn it off at any time in a fit of pique?

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by magzteel ( 5013587 )

      Has everybody already forgotten how Musk directly threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink, thus partially blinding their armed forces trying to repel Russian invaders?

      That's not what happened.

    • Regardless if that specific incident/policy was deployed or not, it's a service platform like Twitter entirely dependent on the whims of a petulant, malignant narcissist.
    • Has everybody already forgotten how Musk directly threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink, thus partially blinding their armed forces trying to repel Russian invaders? Why would any government rely on a satellite/data network controlled by a petulant child-man who might turn it off at any time in a fit of pique?

      Replace Musk with Trump/Vance and Starlink with Military Assistance and you've got a similar situation with Ukraine. I guess sometimes you just have to deal with people like this and hope for the best while you can.

  • The reg posted this a few days ago. https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] Looks like musk will cave his free speech ideals for money. Much like his deals in China.

    The article lists a litany of constraints including "India’s telecom regulator has signaled it’s ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate – but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up “special monitoring zones” within 50km of land borders where law enforcement and securi

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