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I don't think Starlink would currently work without base stations in India.

• josephcsible 5y ago
  Couldn't they make it work for most of the population of India by putting stations near the border in neighboring countries?
  • bklyn11201 5y ago
    Could they bypass the laws of a nation state by using inter-satellite lasers? Yes! But what leads people to believe that Starlink is going to ignore the laws of powerful countries?!
  • toast0 5y ago
    India is pretty sizable, and Starlink currently does not do any orbital routing, so you've got to be within a certain distance from a ground station so that the satellite has you and that ground station in view. I don't know what that distance is though --- maybe someone else can provide that. If Sri Lanka also doesn't allow ground stations, that would make it pretty hard to cover southern India. Even when there's orbital routing, there's likely capacity limits. If Pakistan doesn't block ground stations, it may be a good solution for people in Jammu and Kashmir to get around the frequent government telecommunications shutdowns; assuming lax enforcement.
    • th3iedkid 5y ago
      Pakistani sat phones , VoIP channels etc were always used for attacks in India[1] . So this too probably adds to that. [1] https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/tmc-claims-hollow-civic-poll-results-proved-people-of-tripura-have-faith-in-bjp-dilip-ghosh/articleshow/87960324.cms https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/tmc-cla...