Elon Musk’s Starlink in India? Former bureaucrat E.A.S Sarma advises warning

In his newest letter, Sarma has identified that Musk’s different corporations are actively collaborating with the US authorities in defence and different strategic sectors — and that also needs to make the federal government extra cautious lest India finally ends up being arm-twisted too later.

The Indian authorities ought to ideally reserve satellite tv for pc spectrum in India for its personal strategic makes use of equivalent to defence and ISRO’s operations, he mentioned.

‘It’s unlucky that your division has chosen to exit of the way in which to welcome Starlink with open arms to applicable treasured satellite tv for pc spectrum towards all authorized norms, ignoring all strategic implications,’ Sarma added.

He’s not positive, he wrote, whether or not Starlink has agreed to each safety requirement prescribed for different home telecom gamers.

It has been barely 10 days since Prime Minister Modi returned from Washington DC, the place he had what many noticed as embarrassing public conferences with Elon Musk and US president Donald Trump. And the Indian media has been in a tizzy ever since.

Stories on India being able to drastically cut back import obligation on electrical automobiles to facilitate Musk’s electrical automotive firm Tesla to enter the Indian market have been adopted by bulletins that the corporate is seeking to rent folks in Mumbai and New Delhi.

Now, with US–India commerce relations delicately poised amid ongoing negotiations over reciprocal tariff — and the inventory markets clearly struggling within the face of fears round a tariff struggle — come stories concerning the impending approvals for Starlink.