Colombo, March 24 -- Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband services will be on hold in Sri Lanka until it guarantees the right for the government agencies to secure data or communication details in case of issues related to national security, Daily Mirror learns.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, the telecommunications regulator. issued a licence to Elon Musk's Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services, during the time of the last government in 2024.

Sri Lanka's parliament also passed a new telecommunications bill at that time. It was done in the form of an amendment to the relavent law for the first time in 28 years. It paved the way for Starlink to ente...