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No spectrum auction for satellite broadband; Jyotiraditya Scindia said TRAI will decide the price
Satellite Internet India: Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that there will be no spectrum auction for satellite-based broadband in the country. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will fix the price for this. The country's leading telecom company Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Sunil Mittal's Airtel are demanding auction for satellite broadband spectrum allocation.
Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that instead of auctioning the spectrum for satellite broadband, it will be allocated. Indian billionaire industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Mittal are demanding to auction it, while Elon Musk's company Starlink has advocated its allocation. In an interview, Jyotiraditya Scindia said that satellite broadband will not be given for free and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will fix the price for it.
Jyotiraditya Scindia said, 'Every country has to follow the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is the organization that sets policy for spectrum in space or satellites. The ITU has been very clear about giving spectrum on the basis of 'assignment'. Moreover, if you look around the world today, I do not see a single country that auctions spectrum for satellite.'
India is a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for digital technology. Global competitors like Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's Project Kuiper, however, have supported administrative allocation.
