Telecom companies vie for more space in Indian Space Association

One of the key issues that ISpA will look at is the space policy, which is being finalised

Indian Space Association (ISpA) Chairman Jayant Patil has said that the executive council will debate whether it can include more telecom companies as founding members. The response came after some leading telcos said that they had been asked to be core members but preferred to be inducted as founding members.  

The key founders of the ISpA include the Bharti group through two companies (OneWeb and Airtel), L&T, Nelco, Walchandnagar, Alpha Designs and MapmyIndia.

The telcos’ apprehension is that while founding members have five votes, the core members have only three and this could lead to a “non-level playing field”, especially