Fee for satcom firms pegged at 4% of AGR, Rs 500 extra per urban user: Trai

Satellite internet is likely to be costly in urban India as telecom regulator Trai has announced a spectrum charge of 4 per cent of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), much higher than what operators like Elon Musk’s Starlink have been lobbying for.

Starlink last year had pitched for allocation of spectrum at less than 1 per cent of AGR, a metric used to determine the revenue telecom operators share with the government, through spectrum use charges and licensing fees.