A Parliamentary panel has selected satellite internet as one of the key subjects for a threadbare examination in the coming days, amid the ongoing row over Elon Musk’s remarks on the delay in the government’s approval of his company Starlink to launch the service in India.
BJP MP Dubey, who is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, said the panel has selected satellite internet as one of the subjects for close examination.
BJP MP Dubey, who is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, said the panel has selected satellite internet as one of the subjects for close examination. In a series of posts on X last week, Musk targeted Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, sarcastically addressing him as “Prime Minister Ambani” and questioning whether he wielded greater influence over India’s decisions than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, the Ministry of Communications has rejected the charge, describing suggestions that the regulatory framework or its application was unfair or discriminatory as “baseless” and “misconceived”. The government said that satellite operators must meet the same regulatory requirements, including security conditions and spectrum allocation rules, before they can begin commercial services in the country. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said last week that the three ventures had secured satellite communications licences. Scindia said spectrum would be assigned once the government finalises a revenue-based charging framework and individual operators fulfil the security requirements.
