Starlink has had its Indian licence since June 2025. As of late October, sixteen months on, it still can’t sell anyone a connection.
The latest hold-up, if Bloomberg’s June report is right, is the Home Ministry, which has been sitting on the final security clearance since Starlink dishes turned up in the Iran war, in a country where Starlink was never licensed. Starlink calls that report misleading and says it has built a deployment model tailored for India. In early October, Elon Musk lost patience in public and blamed Mukesh Ambani. The Narendra Modi government says it is simply following process.
