The Department of Telecommunications told Starlink to stop selling preorders.
India has instructed the public not to preorder Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service. The Indian government says that the company needs to get a license to operate in the country before it deploys its services.
The Government of India has asked the company to comply with Indian regulatory framework for rendering the satellite based communication services and not book/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect.
— DoT India (@DoT_India)
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“Public is advised not to subscribe to Starlink services being advertised,” a tweet from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) reads. The DoT also says it asked Starlink to refrain from “booking / rendering the satellite internet services in India.” Starlink will have to put preorders on hold until it can get approval from the Indian government.
Starlink faced scrutiny from the Indian government in April, when the DoT began examining whether Starlink’s beta rollout broke any of India’s telecom laws. The DoT’s move came as the Broadband India Forum (BIF), an independent policy forum that represents Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, pushed the DoT to stop the presale of Starlink devices without a license.
Since Starlink officially registered its business in India on November 1st, it has already seen over 5,000 preorders in the country. There’s no word on whether the existing preorders will be cancelled, or if customers will just have to wait a little longer. Starlink plans to deploy 200,000 devices in India by 2022, with 80 percent in rural areas.
Right now, Starlink has around 140,000 beta users in 20 different countries. Musk predicts that there will be over 500,000 Starlink customers within the next year.
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