Anshu Prakash to meet satellite companies, telcos on local manufacturing of satcom gear

Kolkata: Department of Telecommunications (DoT) secretary Anshu Prakash will next week meet diverse industry stakeholders, including telcos, tech startups, IoT players and global satellite companies such as Bharti-backed OneWeb, Hughes Communications and Inmarsat to discuss a comprehensive roadmap for locally manufacturing satellite communications gear such as gateways and related infrastructure like IoT devices, customer premise equipment (CPEs), antennae systems and sensors.

The meeting, ahead of the upcoming new Spacecom policy, will also discuss ways to create an enabling regulatory regime for global low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation operators to establish in-country gateways in India, especially as India’s dependence on foreign satellite operators won’t go away anytime soon, given that Isro meets only around 50% of the country’s needs.