Until now, only Bharti Airtel backed Eutelsat OneWeb was the only key rival of Mukesh Ambani owned Jio's in the satellite internet race in India. However, Elon Musk’s Starlink may join the race soon.
Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in India and in Asia. He is the chairperson of India’s most valuable company Reliance Retail that has a market cap of more than Rs 1800000 crore. Mukesh Ambani also owns Reliance Jio, the largest telecom operator in India. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio is gearing up to launch superfast satellite broadband service like Elon Musk’s Starlink. The Ambani-owned satellite-based giga fiber service called JioSpaceFiber aims to provide high speed broadband services to previously inaccessible geographies within the country. Recently, it was reported that Jio will soon receive landing rights and market access authorisations this month from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe). Until now, only Bharti Airtel backed Eutelsat OneWeb was the only key rival of Jio in the satellite internet race in India. However, Elon Musk’s Starlink may join the race soon.
As per a report by TelecomTalk citing Livemint, world’s richest man Elon Musk’s Starlink has been allowed to offer satellite broadband services in India. DoT (Department of Telecommunications) has reportedly granted Starlink the crucial Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) license. It is worth noting that getting a GMPS license doesn’t mean that hurdles for Starlink will go away. Elon Musk’s Stralink still needs a few more nods to achieve its 2022 aim of launching satellite internet service in India.
Jio is partnering with SES to access the world’s latest in medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite technology, the only MEO constellation capable of delivering truly unique Gigabit, fiber-like services from space. With Jio having access to a combination of SES’s O3b and new O3b mPOWER satellites, it is the only company that offers game-changing technology, providing scalable and affordable broadband across all of India with a level of guaranteed reliability and service flexibility that is a first in the industry.
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