India delicenses the lower 6 GHz band (500 MHz) for Wi-Fi 6E/7, boosting home WiFi speeds and aiding tech firms. The move supports initiatives like PM-WANI and BharatNet, enabling affordable broadband access.
Despite tech disruptions like IPTV and broadband, DTH still has a future in India due to regulatory discrepancies and broadband limitations. DD Free Dish also impacts market.
Amazon's Project Kuiper seeks rapid approval to enter India's satellite internet market, following Starlink. LEO constellations will dramatically increase India's data transfer capabilities. Competition heats up!
India imposes stricter security norms for satcom licenses, impacting Starlink, OneWeb, Jio-SES, and Amazon Kuiper. Data localization, NavIC integration, and phased manufacturing are now mandatory for national security.
Starlink plans India expansion, partnering to reach underserved areas. Faces regulatory hurdles but setting up infrastructure. Focus on partnerships, direct services, and regulatory approvals.
LCOs are crucial for India's wired broadband expansion, partnering with telecom companies like Airtel & Jio to counter declining pay-TV revenue. Wired broadband users are expected to double by 2030.
Average 5G data consumption in India has peaked to 40 GB per user per month and its total subscriber base is expected to grow by 2.65 times to around 770 million in the next three years, telecom gear firm Nokia said on Thursday.
Starlink is likely to be subjected to a spectrum usage charge (SUC) in India, a levy that had been scrapped for terrestrial network providers such as Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea a few years ago, ToI reported citing sources.
Telcos say if 6GHz was delicensed in India-like it has been in the US-tech companies can offer ultra-high-speed internet to potentially over a billion people, without any licence liabilities and costs that operators have to bear, thus upsetting a level playing field and hurting their business model.
TRAI’s report on the telecom industry’s fiscal second quarter performance also indicated that monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) from wireless services rose 9.60% on-quarter to Rs 172.57.
However, some exceptions could be given under the new Telecommunications Act to serve public interest, or to perform government function or where such auctions are not the preferred mode of assigning spectrum due to technical or economic reasons, minister of state for communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
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”.
