InterneTelecom
New Delhi: Elon Musk’s Starlink has hit back against Indian telecom operators’ demand that only auctioned satellite spectrum should be used to service urban or retail consumers, terming it “self-serving at the cost of underserved users”.
Space World Group, a fibre assets company, plans to connect 35 data centres in seven major Indian cities, entailing an investment of $500 million through its new ventures called Constl and Ranext, co-founder Ankit Goel said.
Mobile phone operators had told Trai that messages containing OTPs and other critical activities may not be delivered as telemarketers (TM) and principal entities (PEs) such as banks and other financial institutions were yet to implement the technical solution.
Besides, royalties, technical charges paid out of India and supply of repackaged and refurbished goods were excluded from the calculation of local content as per the order issued by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Both BIF and SIA India believe such a move will ring in regulatory clarity and create a more conducive environment for attracting top dollars from the biggest global satellite constellation operators such as Eutelsat OneWeb, Elon Musk’s Starlink, Amazon-Kuiper, SES and Telesat.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has disconnected 2.75 lakh telephone numbers and blocked services to 50 entities in a crackdown on spam calls and unregistered telemarketers.
“In view of this, a need is felt to review and put in place provisions, including regulating tariff for SMS and Voice calls beyond a certain limit, to curb UCC (unsolicited commercial communication) from UTMs using 10-digit numbers (p2p).”