Musk, Tata, Mittal, Amazon on one side, Ambani on other

What does Elon Musk want

Starlink wants India to license only the service and not insist on auctioning the spectrum or airwaves containing the signal. Musk’s stance matches that of Tata, Sunil Bharti Mittal and Amazon. Ambani’s Reliance, on the other hand, says that spectrum should be auctioned for providing voice and data services to foreign satellite service providers.

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What is Reliance saying

Reliance says this is necessary to provide a level-playing field to traditional telecom companies, which offer similar services using airwaves bought in government auctions.

Brokerage CLSA said in a note, “The spectrum decision is important for India’s space-based communication service (SS). The government has auctioned mobile spectrum worth US$ 77 billion since 2010 and many companies are keen on SS.

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many companies keen

CLSA said several companies, including Starlink, are keen on the Indian SS. The commentary said Amazon, Tata, Bharti Airtel-backed OneWeb and Larsen & Toubro are against the auction, while Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea support the Bharat SS auction.