https://www.businessinsider.com/spac...ansion-2021-11
SpaceX's Starlink is planning to roll out 200,000 user terminals in India
SpaceX's satellite internet network,
Starlink, wants to roll out 200,000
user terminals in India in an effort to expand its service in Asia, according to a company presentation.
Starlink has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in India called Starlink Satellite Communications Private, the company's India director, Sanjay Bhargava, wrote in a
LinkedIn post Monday. Bhargava, a former PayPal executive, said in the post that the subsidiary can now apply for licenses and open bank accounts.
The subsidiary has a "stretch goal" to deploy 200,000 Starlink user terminals in more than 160,000 rural districts in India by December 2022, per a company presentation that Bhargava
shared on LinkedIn last week…..
Starlink is also in talks with two telecommunications companies in the Philippines, where it also wants to launch its satellite service,
Bloomberg first reported on Friday.
There are currently more than
1,650 Starlink satellites in orbit. The company's goal is to have
42,000 by mid-2027 in order to create an internet service which stretches across the world.