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Title: SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0130...

schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after
India's government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing
private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also
apparently completed negotiations with SpaceX to allow it to sell Starlink in
India based on these rules. Business Today reports: "According to sources,
the DoT [Department of Transportation] granted the LoI [Letter of Intent]
after Starlink accepted 29 strict security conditions, including requirements
for real-time terminal tracking, mandatory local data processing, legal
interception capabilities, and localisation of at least 20% of its ground
segment infrastructure within the first few years of operation. Starlink's
nod came amid heightened national security sensitivities, coinciding with
India's pre-dawn Operation Sindoor strikes on terror camps across the border
in response to the Pahalgam massacre. However, DoT officials clarified that
the decision to approve Starlink was independent of these military
developments." At the moment SpaceX's chief competitors, OneWeb and Amazon's
Kuiper constellation, have not yet obtained the same permissions. This allows
SpaceX to grab a large portion of the market share in India before either of
these other companies.

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