Satellite ‘magic bullet’ to connect the unconnected: Sunil Mittal

New Delhi: Satellite communications is a “magic bullet” to cover dark unconnected areas, Bharti Chairman Sunil Mittal said on Monday, adding that players now have a great new opportunity to leverage satellite connectivity to cover remote areas that have so far been left out. Speaking at the NDTV World Summit, Mittal said that nearly two billion people in the world are still not connected to the internet, and in the Indian context too there are areas — large swathes of desert, forests, coastlines — where neither mobile networks, not fibre is feasible.