Images: Top Starlink's  system envisages a constellation of 12,000 satellites.  Bottom a Starlink customer dish antenna
November 11 2021: Starklink , the Elon Musk-owned company that offers satellite-based Internet services, has got down to doing serious business in India: it has registered an Indian subsidiary , is said to be applying for a license and has names an India director -- Sanjay Bhargava.
He says in a Linkedin post:"Pleased to share that SpaceX now has a 100 per cent owned subsidiary in India. The name is SSCPL – Starlink Satellite Communications Private Limited – and the incorporation date is Nov. 1, 2021. We can now start applying for licenses, open bank accounts, etc.,"
The company will compete with the likes of Airtel sponsored One Web to offer satellite broadband services  in India in  next year.
IANS reports that Starlink will focus on 10 rural Lok Sabha constituencies to provide internet services."I am also keen to have 30-minute virtual conversations with MPs, Ministers, Secretaries to GOI, or Principal Secretaries to states to see if they think 100 percent broadband would help improve lives," Bhargava  is quoted as saying, "We will probably focus on 10 rural Lok Sabha constituencies for 80 per cent of the Starlink terminals shipped to India. The number of preorders from rural constituencies will be one factor that helps us select focus constituencies.” It opened its $99 per month beta program for select customers  last year.