India, Oct. 8 -- Within 24 hours this week, India's satellite internet story went from a company saying it was ready to a billionaire alleging sabotage to a ministry calling that allegation baseless. What did not change is the central fact: Starlink has a licence and equipment in the country, but it has no permission to sell service.

A claim, then a rebuttal The sequence started on Wednesday at India Mobile Congress 2026, where Starlink's Vice-President of Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, told the audience that the company had finished its homework. She said Starlink had already spent the money to build 20 gateway sites with hundreds of antennas, and that it had shaped its Indian operations around local security rules, keeping Indian ...