India says no auction of satellite spectrum after Musk decries move Telecoms Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said during a New Delhi event that the spectrum will be allocated administratively in line with Indian laws, and its pricing worked out by the telecom watchdog.......... "This spectrum was long designated by the ITU as shared spectrum for satellites," Musk said, referring to the International Telecommunication Union, a U.N. agency for digital technology. ......... "Satellite companies who have ambitions to come into urban areas, serving elite retail customers, just need to take the telecom licenses like everybody else... they need to buy the spectrum as telecom companies buy," Mittal, who is also the chair of Airtel, said at the New Delhi event. ......... Earlier in 2023, both Eutelsat unit OneWeb and Airtel had voiced concerns about auctioning the spectrum in their submissions to the Indian government. ......... Musk's Starlink and some global peers like Amazon's Project Kuiper back an administrative allocation, saying spectrum is a natural resource that should be shared by companies.
Elon Musk expands his empire of misinformation At any Tesla event, you have to go in expecting a good amount of smoke and mirrors. This is the company run by Elon Musk, after all — its self-anointed Technoking who’s made overpromising and underdelivering a theme of his career........... But Thursday’s “Cybercab” robotaxi unveiling was, even by Musk-ian standards for bluster, one giant optical illusion. The kind of spectacle that should remind everyone that the world’s richest person is someone who promotes and appears to relish misinformation and hyperbole on a mass scale, whether he’s speaking to investors, his millions of followers on X or whichever politician he feels is most likely to agree with his increasingly right-wing and conspiracy-laden worldview........ the fact that the robots were not actually autonomous and were being operated remotely by humans ............ At one point, an attendee even got a bartending bot to admit that it was being assisted by a human. ........... Over the weekend, federal emergency workers were forced to halt their in hurricane-hit North Carolina after National Guard troops reported that an “armed militia” was “hunting FEMA
Elon Musk battles Indian billionaires over satellite internet spectrum Starlink head in spat with owners of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel mobile networks who have called for space bandwidth auctions ......... A person close to the company said only services reaching currently unserved communities should be assigned spectrum, to allow for a “level playing field” after Indian operators invested “billions of dollars” in terrestrial connections. .......... “It’s more about ensuring that the telecom industry remains in control of the local players rather than foreigners coming in and dictating their agenda,” they said. “I can’t think of any other explanation, it’s not like there’s a scarcity of spectrum, it’s abundant.” ......... A simple assignment of spectrum may hand Musk’s company, the largest and most successful of its kind, a “first-mover advantage”, while an auction process would allow Indian players time to get their products market-ready, said the person close to Reliance. ......... Musk told Modi last year that he wanted to bring Starlink, which operates more than 6,000 low-orbit satellites, to India to connect remote communities........ Musk also has his eye on the long-term potential of India as a location for a Tesla plant, despite cancelling a trip to New Delhi earlier this year to prioritise talks with and focus on its Asian rival China.
No spectrum auction: Government after Elon Musk objects to Mukesh Ambani's pitch Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has announced that India will follow the global trend of administrative spectrum allocation. The decision came after Starlink CEO Elon Musk objected to Ambani's Reliance Jio lobbying for the auction route.
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India Sides with Elon Musk on Satellite Spectrum as Ambani, Mittal Prepare for Intense Battle Telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has given blow to Indian telecos, including Reliance and Airtel, who have been advocating for the auction method ........ the minister cited the Telecommunications Act 2023 and global practices to back his stance on spectrum allocation. .......... “For satcom, spectrum will be allocated administratively...that does not mean that spectrum does not come without a cost. What that cost is and what the formula of that costing is going to be...will be decided by the TRAI,” said Scindia. Satellite spectrum across the globe is allocated administratively, and India is taking the same route, he added. ........ The key issue pointed out by Reliance was TRAI’s failure to provide a level playing field between satellite-based and terrestrial access services. In the letter, the telecom giant cited the Supreme Court judgement in the 2G case and hinted towards a legal battle that might surface if concerns remain unresolved.
Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on October 15 ..
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