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Bharti Enterprises Ready to Roll out Satellite Telecom Service in India

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CIO Bulletin
2025-01-22

Bharti Enterprises, owned by India's wealthiest man, announced the plans to start satellite telecom services in India, after getting green light in spectrum bidding, to offer affordable connectivity to remote areas.

The Bharti satellite telecom service is ready for launch in India provided the government gives the go ahead, said Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Rajan Bharti Mittal. Bharti Enterprises, with base stations in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, has just the spectrum allocation to commence work.

So far, the company has already sent 635 satellites in the world and it is working on the city's underserved areas in India. Satellite services, he said, should be treated no differently to conventional telecom services and should have spectrum made available through auctions and licensing fees.

Bharti Airtel supports this stance but global companies like Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper are pushing for administrative spectrum allocation. Mittal thinks satellite telecom services will provide cheap, accessible connectivity to remote areas where terrestrial networks are not possible.

In addition, he pitched work life balance at Bharti Enterprises where people are directed towards balancing family and health with the professional activities.