Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal teamed up with rival Mukesh Ambani-led Jio, advocating satellite tv for pc corporations to pay license charges and purchase spectrum the identical approach as telecom operators. Talking at India Cellular Convention 2024 (IMC), Mittal stated that the present telecom corporations will take satellite tv for pc providers into the remotest elements. Final week, Reliance Jio wrote a letter to telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia opposing the telecom regulator TRAI’s suggestion of satellite tv for pc broadband being allotted and never auctioned.
What Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal stated
“Telecom corporations across the globe have performed seminal work in connecting the world. They are going to take the satellite tv for pc providers into the remotest elements of the nations by means of the USO program and immediately by means of themselves. The satellite tv for pc corporations who’ve ambitions to come back into city areas serving elite retail clients simply have to take the telecom licenses like everyone with the identical situations and must purchase the spectrum and pay license charges because the telecom gamers,” Mittal stated.
“And people satellite tv for pc corporations who’ve ambitions to come back into city areas, serving retail clients, simply have to pay the telecom licenses like everybody else. They’re sure to the identical situations.
“They should purchase the spectrum because the telecom corporations do, and have to pay the license because the telecom corporations do, and likewise safe the networks of the telecom corporations,” he stated.
Jio writes letter to Telecom Minister
In its letter to telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jio highlighted the rising curiosity of worldwide satellite tv for pc constellations like Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, and its personal three way partnership with SES in India. These constellations are anticipated to supply satellite-based communication providers, immediately competing with terrestrial networks.
Jio argued that since terrestrial networks purchase spectrum by means of auctions, an identical course of ought to be adopted for satellite tv for pc providers to make sure truthful competitors. The corporate beforehand addressed this concern to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) however obtained no favorable response.
