Satellite broadband: ‘No communication’ received by DoT yet from three companies

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has till date received “no communication” regarding satellite broadband from Amazon, Bharti group backed-OneWeb or Elon Musk’s SpaceX, it has said in response to a Right to Information (RTI) query.

The DoT’s response came on queries seeking to know whether it had, since 2018, received any communication or proposal for setting up of satellite broadband in India from Amazon, OneWeb, SpaceX or any of their subsidiaries.

DoT officials also confirmed the development and said that so far none of these companies had come to them with a “concrete proposal” on starting satellite broadband in the country, although there had been some initial informal discussions between the various departments of the telecom ministry.