Starlink finally got the green light for India deployment, and this could actually solve what traditional telecom operators ignored for years—getting decent internet to remote areas.

The tech advantage here isn't trivial. Low-earth orbit satellites positioned at 550 kilometers deliver significantly lower latency compared to those ancient geostationary ones hanging at 36,000 km altitude. Physics matters when your signal has to travel 65 times less distance.

Rural connectivity in India has been a mess for decades. Telecom giants focused on profitable urban zones while villages struggled with spotty 2G coverage. Satellite-based infrastructure bypasses all that legacy ground equipment entirely. No fiber cables to lay across mountains, no cell towers in every district.

Whether this scales profitably remains to be seen, but at least someone's attempting infrastructure innovation instead of recycling the same outdated playbook.