Starlink
Elon Musk’s satellite broadband service provider company Starlink has received a letter of intent from the government to start service in India. The Department of Telecommunications has given this letter to Musk’s company for satellite service license in India. However, Starlink has to obey many stringent terms and conditions to launch its satellite service in India.
Waiting for GMPCS license
According to the PTI report, Musk’s company has been waiting for the Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite ie GMPCS license to launch satellite broadband service in India for the past several years. However, the company has accepted the condition of data localization in India. This means that the user data of service providers will be stored in India itself. After getting the letter of intent, the Department of Telecommunications may soon give GMPCS license to the company.
The license to start satellite service in India is currently given to Airtel and Jio. Amazon and Starlink have not yet received licenses from the Department of Telecommunications. According to the report, officials of Allen Musk’s company Starlink and Spacex met Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently. Apart from this, Musk and PM Modi also met recently.
The company will have to accept these conditions
Before launching the satellite service in India, Starlink will have to obey the new conditions connected by the Department of Telecommunications, in which many more security needs, including website blocking and legal surveillance, have to accept the rules that meet.
Let us know that DOT has further tightened the rules for satellite service providers. For this, the Department of Telecommunications has added 29 to 30 new security parameters. Under the new rule, the Department of Telecommunications has provided a provision for service providers to create a special surveillance zone within a 50 km radius of the international border of India.
Not only this, under the new rule, service providers will terminate a user’s network in a situation when they are roaming in an unauthorized area or restricted area. Apart from this, service providers will have to track user terminal (fixed and mobile) real-time location data in India’s border on demand of security agency. In this, information about the lalong and latitud of the user terminal will have to be given on the basis of real-time.
Not only this, satellite service providers will have to verify user terminals. For this, they can use authentication methods, in which any unreserved foreign device will get service access only in India only after the registration process.
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