Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX recently launched its Starlink satellite internet service that claims to be capable of delivering 50Mbps to 150Mbps internet access to.
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The official said that action, including sending a notice at first, may be taken if it is legally established that Starlink’s offer violates India’s existing telecom regulations, is not in the consumer interest and also has national security implications.
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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started examining whether Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s offer to pre-sell its Starlink satellite internet service in India flouts any of the country’s existing telecom and technology laws.
The department is trying to assess if the Starlink beta service offer violates any provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933, India’s satcom policy, 2000, and the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, a senior DoT official told ET.
April 5, 2021
SpaceX’s Starlink, a satellite broadband service run with a constellation of low earth orbit satellites, has spooked technology and satellite companies in India, which have have written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and ISRO to block the preorders, according to an India Today report.
In March, SpaceX’s Starlink, a satellite broadband service run with a constellation of low earth orbit satellites, opened pre-orders for India. A fully refundable US$99 (~Rs 7,265) has to be paid. Such a system isn’t new for Elon Musk-founded companies. Tesla, for instance, has taken several preorders from Indian customers, in spite of the fact that not a single car by the company has been sold directly by the company in the country.
IT Rules 2021 Over the top?
Heavy-handed The new rules will hit Indian language OTT players harder - AP×
For players in the OTT space, the new rules pose an onerous burden. More stakeholder consultations were needed
To regulate or not to regulate? That is the $3-billion question for India’s nascent OTT (over-the-top) market. The industry is the fastest-growing globally with 40+ digital platforms, both domestic and global (PwC). This boom is not accidental. The growth is driven by two factors: heavy consumer demand for content online, and the progressive regulatory environment that helped foster innovations and investments.
But the new IT Rules 2021 notification on February 25, 2021 added heavy mandates on this sector that may be too impractical to implement. OTT players, notably smaller domestic ones, will be weighed down by higher administrative costs. And to what end? The rules seem to act as speed-breakers on a runway working against, and perhaps making it almost
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