New Delhi: The Center has asked Elon Musk’s satellite venture Starlink to establish a control center in India to enable communication services in sensitive and disturbed areas to maintain law and order.
In addition, the security establishment has specified the mandate by law-enforcement agencies through official channels to allow call interception, when the need arises, the top formulas told TOI. The move comes as a Starlink application for a satellite communications license, entering the final stage with the company, which sews agreements with Reliance Jio and Airtel for marketing, deployment and network growth.
Starlink to look at ‘Control Center, Constitutional’ issues
A control center is important because sudden changes in law-and-order situations in any part of the country may require immediate suspension and closure of communication services, introduced through satellites. We cannot be expected to knock their (Starlink) doors or contact their headquarters in the US whenever such an exaggeration arises, ”a formula told TOI, the company said that the government has assured that it is looking into the matter.
The telecommunications law has provisions that allow the Central or State Government to take “temporary occupation” of any telecom service or network, including disaster management, including disaster management in terms of public emergency or from an authorized unit in the interest of public safety. Apart from this, there are provisions of internet shutdown.
On the issue of blockage, sources clarified that “it is nothing new” and it is also a mandate for the existing terrestrial network such as Jio, Airtel and Vodafone ideas such as companies such as companies.
“For this, SATCOM companies have been asked not to transfer the call directly through the satellite network and instead they are sent back to their India Gateway and then the channel taken by any traditional communication service is used – such as a landline or terrestrial mobile phone service call,” said the source.
If someone in France uses a satellite phone service to call someone, the call will travel from the user and move towards the satellite, but it will not travel directly to France via satellite route, but will return to the company’s India Gateway ‘Appearance’ point (pop) before taking the traditional telecom channel, such as the Undrasis Cable. Starlink representatives have been in touch with government officials to solve security concerns.
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