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India's two biggest telecommunications providers—Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio—announced partnerships to bring Starlink's services to the country on Tuesday and Wednesday , respectively, with both companies agreeing to give their hundreds of millions of customers access to Starlink's high-speed internet services. It's a breakthrough for Starlink and its parent company SpaceX, which have spent years trying to start operations in India but have been stymied by resistance from those same telecom players and regulatory scrutiny from the Indian government. Even as Starlink faces canceled contracts in Canada amid a will-they-won't-they trade war with the United States and potentially escalating competition with rivals in Europe over the war in Ukraine, the U.
S. satellite internet provider was handed a big boost on the other side of the world. Even as Starlink faces canceled contracts in Canada amid a will-they-won't-they trade war with the United States and potentially escalating competition with rivals in Europe over the war in Ukraine, the U.
S. satellite internet provider was handed a big boost on the other side of the world. India's two biggest telecommunications providers—Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio—announced partnerships to bring Starlink's services to the country on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, with both companies agreeing to give their hundreds of millions of customers access to Starlink's high-speed internet services.
It's a breakthrough for Starlink and its parent company SpaceX, which have spent years trying to start operations in India but have been stymied by resistance from those same telecom players and regulatory scrutiny from the Indian government. While the first of those hurdles has been cleared with the Airtel and Jio partnership announcements, both Indian companies made it clear that the deals remain "subject to SpaceX receiving its own authorizations to sell Starlink in India." A spokesperson for the Indian embassy in Washington,.
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