India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence

Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by mcguire on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:04PM (#29362500)

If we all obeyed a dictum to "avoid selling things until you can provide those things", Silicon Valley would dry up overnight.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by JulianMorrison on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:09PM (#29362539)

I fail to see a downside.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by tshaddox on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:04PM (#29362904)

I don’t really see why that’s true, unless you consider companies’ pitches to investors to be “selling” something. Silicon Valley isn’t really known for the business model of taking money for preorders.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by Ballu on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:10PM (#29362546)

There is a difference in "avoid selling things until you can provide those things" and "avoid selling things until you are allowed to sell things".

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by phendrenad2 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:51PM (#29362823)

What's the difference?

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by nine_k on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:34PM (#29363113)

You may have the stuff you've invested into production of, and potential buyers willing to give you the money. But if your stuff is illegal to sell, tough luck.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by phendrenad2 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:39PM (#29373310)

So the real difference is between collecting preorders for something you MAY be able to fulfill in the near term vs something that you may be blocked from selling for an indeterminate amount of time.

Starlink will eventually be legal in India, but it could take decades. In this sense, there's no real difference between "avoid selling things until you can provide those things" and "avoid selling things until you are allowed to sell things". It's just that a normal person has a cutoff point where it becomes an unreasonable wait.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by Ballu on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:57PM (#29408403)

By default, all satellite operators are blocked in India. I haven't checked in last year or 2, you cant even use Garmin emergency devices which are becoming common in west outdoors. To use the satellite phones, you need to apply to the federal gov (called Central gov in India) and you can rent the phone from ministry. Atleast, thats the process for tourist or who are entering India from other countries. There are some changes happened in last 1-2 years, few satellite companies got the lic to provide services, but I am sure all the devices and services are highly regulated.

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Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence by butMyside on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:11PM (#29362555)

Since it’s just math in a machine and we have the math written down all over, what would be losing of long term value to the human species?

I have made a lot of money thanks to SV, but it’s not what puts food on my table; people where I live do. I don’t live near SV.

Billions of us don’t give af about SV. It’s all hype and our daily lives will look pretty much the same without it.

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