Looking forward to serving India with Starlink: Elon Musk

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said he is looking forward to serving India with his affordable internet service StarlinkHe responded to an X post by Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia who met Lauren Dreyer Vice President and Senior DirectorndashStarlink Business Operations at SpaceXA pleasure to meet Lauren Dreyer Vice President of Starlink Business Operations SpaceX and the senior leadership team to discuss advancing satellitebased lastmile access across Indiardquo said the ministerScindia further said that as we work to advance PM Narendra Modirsquos vision of a digitally empowered India ldquosatellite technology will play a pivotal role in extending connectivity to the most remote parts of the country and strengthening internet access to every citizen in rural and hardtoreach regions ensuring that digital inclusion accelerates broader developmentrdquoEarlier after facing a configuration glitch that displayed Starlinkrsquos India pricing on its local website the company said this week that the glitch has now been fixed and ldquothose numbers do not reflect what the cost of Starlink service will be in IndiardquoThe Starlink India website went live with service pricing for customers in India The satellitebased internet service displayed price at Rs 8600 per month with new subscribers have to purchase a hardware kit for Rs 34000Dreyer said in an X post that ldquoThe Starlink India website is not live service pricing for customers in India has not yet been announced and we are not taking orders from customers in IndiardquoldquoThere was a config glitch that briefly made dummy test data visible but those numbers do not reflect what the cost of Starlink service will be in India The glitch was quickly fixedrdquo she clarifiedDreyer further said that they are eager to connect the people of India with Starlinks highspeed internet and ldquoour teams are focused on obtaining final government approvals to turn service and the website onrdquoStarlink emphasises features like plugandplay installation more than 999 per cent uptime extreme weather resistance and no data caps for its push to reach those consumers in regions where terrestrial broadband remains unreliableThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever