[oneplane]

That is exactly how it currently works, including pre-starlink satellite internet. There was an example about starlink pre-sales in India happening while they don't have a license to operate there yet and therefore can't deliver even if it was operational.

[stephen_g]

I think India has pretty strong bans over (at least foreign) satellite access. I worked at a place that made satellite equipment for various networks, including Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX). We'd sometimes get calls from customers when they were heading to ports in India because their internet would just stop working a few km off the coast.

It was one of the only places in the service area (most of the world, minus near the poles) that I know of that Inmarsat blocked out service.

(There was a way to override the GPS on the terminal to make it report to the network that you were somewhere else, but we tried not to tell customers about that - or Inmarsat obviously!)

[Terry_Roll]

You mean this? https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/elon-musk-starlink-int... "Govt Asks Indians Not To Subscribe To Elon Musk-owned Internet Service Starlink"

StarLink is not licenced for use in India yet, but do you think the US mil or any other Nato mil will want some control over military coup's like when the military rolled into (Burma) Myanmar earlier this year and the internet was shut down? Not the only country to shutdown the internet or censor it when thinking about the Great Firewall of China either. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55901774 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Myanmar#Re-censors...