Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has welcomed the collaboration between telecom and satellite companies, calling it a major step towards global connectivity.
During his inaugural speech at IMC Mittal said "Those satellite companies who have ambitions to come into urban areas, serving elite retail customers just need to take the telecom licenses like everybody else. Be bound with the same conditions. They need to buy the spectrum as the telecom
His remarks come hours after the signing of a significant memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India's premier industry association of space and satellite companies, ISpA, and GIFAS, the French Aerospace Industries Association.