Nelco, Yotta application for starting satellite-based communication service rejected

Mumbai: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has refused to grant global mobile personal communication by satellite (GMPCS) authorisation to Tata-owned Nelco and Yotta Network Services. The licence is needed to provide satellite-based communication services.

DoT has, so far, given GMPCS licence only to Jio Satellite, Starlink and OneWeb India, according to minister of state for communications and rural development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar.

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, he said that in the past five years, Nelco, Yotta Network Services, OneWeb India Communications, Jio Satellite Communications, Starlink Satellite Communications, Amazon Kuiper Services India and Connect4sure Technologies applied for the satcom permit.


"After examination of these applications, DoT has issued Unified Licence with authorisation for GMPCS service to three companies, namely OneWeb India Communications, Jio and Starlink," the minister said, adding that applications of Nelco and Yotta Network Services were rejected.