Indian telcos take the broadband battle to space

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s big-ticket entry into satellite services on the heels of Bharti Group-backed OneWeb may have lent a new dimension to the emerging broadband-from-space services market in India.

But industry executives, legal experts and analysts say the entry of India’s top two telecom players in the satcom space won’t automatically lead to a sharp drop in pricey satellite Internet rates anytime soon. That is, unless global biggies such