India, Nov. 28 -- The licensing norms for satellite earth station gateways (SESG) are creating serious disagreements among service providers.

As per ET, while Amazon's Kuiper, Canada's Telesat and Tata's Nelco have supported a separate authorisation regime for SESG, Bharti Group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb and Apple partner Globalstar have said that it does not require any separate licensing.

SESGs are ground stations that facilitate data transmission between local networks.

Globalstar has argued that the current GMPCS (global mobile personal communication by satellite) licence mandates authorised entities to establish gateway stations, and therefore, any new SESG-specific authorisation should not negatively affect the operations of GMPCS l...