{"id":262178,"date":"2025-03-19T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/indias-vodafone-idea-explores-partnership-with-elon-musks-starlink\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:28:36","slug":"indias-vodafone-idea-explores-partnership-with-elon-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/indias-vodafone-idea-explores-partnership-with-elon-musks-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s Vodafone Idea Explores Partnership with Elon Musk’s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vodafone Idea is in exploratory talks with various satellite communication providers, including Starlink<\/a>, the company said on Wednesday, a week after the Indian telecom firm’s rivals signed deals with Elon Musk’s<\/a> company.<\/p>\n

The mobile operator made the disclosure after Indian stock exchanges sought a clarification on its stock move and a report by local financial news website Moneycontrol earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Shares of Vodafone Idea<\/a> rose nearly five percent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Our strategy is to provide services — whether fixed or mobile — in uncovered areas, where satellite makes perfect sense,” Vodafone Idea Chief Technology Officer Jagbir Singh told Moneycontrol, as per the report.<\/p>\n

“The other (strategy) is to provide fixed wireless broadband in rural areas and smaller towns, where it is expensive to roll out such services.”<\/p>\n

Last week, Musk’s SpaceX<\/a> signed deals with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio to bring Starlink’s internet services to India.<\/p>\n

As part of the deals, the Indian operators will stock Starlink’s equipment in their retail stores, giving the US-based satellite communication firm a direct distribution point in thousands of such outlets across the country.<\/p>\n

The deals will be conditional on Starlink obtaining government approval to begin operations in the country.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2025<\/em><\/p>\n

(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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