Airtel announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring its affordable satellite internet service to India. Sunil Bharti Mittal said a new era of seamless global connectivity beckons for customers. Mittal made a call to both the telecom and satellite players to work together, combine their strengths, and complete the mission of connecting the unconnected, covering the oceans and the skies as well as difficult-to-reach areas. He said that soon, customers will be able to carry their mobiles to the remotest part of the world, with them in the skies and blue oceans. He made a similar appeal in my keynote address at the Mobile World Congress in 2017 for operators to slash roaming charges, which were preventing customers from carrying their home networks and seeking local SIMs or Wi-Fi hotspots. The industry responded favourably; roaming rates went south, and the international home network switch-on rates shot up, he said. The agreement is subject to SpaceX receiving its own authorisations to sell Starlink in the country. This is the first agreement to be signed in India.