New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, reiterated on Friday that its satellite telecom service is ready for rollout in India and that it is now waiting for the Centre's greenlight.

Satellite telecom in India will help the country provide much-needed services to remote interior places where conventional telecom services tend to be costly.

"We are one of the leading players and are waiting for permissions. We are providing these services in many parts of the world already. So I think it's a great initiative, and we have already sought our permissions to launch," Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of SOUL Leadership Conclave here in the national capital.

"So as soon as we are given the g...