
The exclusion of commercial licensing terms from the new draft framework threatens to stall the launch of satellite broadband in India, an industry body representing firms such as OneWeb, Hughes, Nelco and Amazon wrote in a letter to the government.

Merely getting a licence from the Department of Telecom(DoT) to provide satellite communication services will no longer be enough, companies will need security clearance even after assignment of spectrum to roll out their services, according to draft rules is…