Ministry of Communications of India

That's the vital context.

Starlink has spent five years trying to comply with Indian laws, but the Ministry of Communications confirms all three preliminary license holders, Starlink, Jio, and Sunil Mittal's OneWeb, are at the exact same regulatory stage.

No one has a green light.

To put the financial stakes into perspective, the Forbes source estimates Ambani's net worth at $83.2 billion.

But New Delhi hasn't given the final go-ahead for commercial operations, even though Starlink secured some key clearances.

India's Ministry of Communications pushed back hard on Musk's accusations, saying the regulatory framework is fair and non-discriminatory.

The ministry said Starlink and two other licensed satellite operators are all undergoing security assessments that have to be done before anybody gets satellite spectrum, and that all three are at broadly the same regulatory stage.

In other words, you're not being singled out, Elon.

India's government on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk's claims that certain oligarchs were blocking the rollout of a Starlink satellite internet service in the country and said it has put fair and non-discriminatory regulations in place to approve satellite communication services.

In an official response from India's Ministry of Communications that omitted explicit reference to Musk, authorities addressed online posts alleging regulatory bias in the approval process.

The ministry said three satellite communications operators have received telecom licenses and all of them are currently undergoing security assessment as part of the approval process.

Starlink is one of the three providers who received the initial license from the government last year.

And, uh, all this kind of research we do with the support from government, we do support from industry.

So to acknowledge them, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Communication, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, then ISRO, uh, the topmost space agency of India, that is Indian Space Research Organization, and, uh, DRDO.

Again, this is the topmost, uh, defense development agency in India, Defense Technology Development.

We call this a Defense Research Development Organizations.

So, uh, as part of this, uh, Bharat 6G Alliance, we are, uh, having a kind of Bharat 6G terahertz testbed team, which we are developing a testbed at two hundred and seventy gigahertz frequency band.

And this testbed team includes, uh, four prestigious institutions of our country.

That is SAMIL chairman, partner, party, and, uh, under the efforts of Ministry of Communication, we are developing this testbed.

Now, before we go in that, uh, just to understand, uh, why the needs and why the purposes are, particularly for those who are not from this particular field to understand.