New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Elon Musk-owned Starlink on Wednesday said a large part of its capacity will remain underutilized in India if the country's rural users are not brought onto its soon-to-be launched satellite internet services. Rural users are fundamental to how its network operates, it said.

"A very large percentage of Starlink users (worldwide) are residential users who live in rural areas, and a very large number of those users are people for whom Starlink was the first option they had for a truly great broadband," Parnil Urdhwareshe, director at Starlink Satellite Communications, said at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi.

According to Urdhwareshe, the actual number of users Starlink can serve in metro Mumbai would be one-ten...