Elon Musk’s Starlink gets Satcom License from India’s DoT

Starlink gets satcom license in India →

Kiran Rathee, reporting for the Economic Times:

Starlink has become the latest entrant to get a satcom licence in India, becoming the third player after Eutelsat-OneWeb and Jio-SES combine to offer commercial services in India.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued the Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) permit to the Elon Musk-owned company and trial spectrum too will be issued to it in coming days.

Starlink is the third company to get the license, after Eutelsat OneWeb and Reliance’s JioSpaceFiber. It’ll be interesting to see how this space shapes up in the coming months.