9SEPTEMBER 2025GOOGLE HUB TO BOOST AI STARTUPS AT T-HUB HYDERABADTELECOM DEPT RAISES CONCERNS ON TRAI'S SATELLITE INTERNET TARIFFOn December 9 of this year, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is anticipated to officially open the Google Hub, which will be housed within T-Hub. Together, T-Hub and Google will develop talent, accelerate AI-first startups, and establish direct connections to global markets and funding.The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has returned a number of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) recommendations on satellite spectrum and pricing for reassessment.One of the major elements of TRAI's recommendations was an additional charge of 500 per year on every urban subscriber. However, DoT was not quite comfortable with the idea of a distinction between urban and rural In the realm of startups and digital innovation, the strategic alliance is seen as a first step toward the larger economic goal of making Telangana a $1 trillion economy by 2034 and a $3 trillion economy by 2047.The Google for Startups Hub, which is scheduled to open in Hyderabad as part of the Memorandum of Understanding between Google and the Government of Telangana, will represent yet another milestone in the city's IT industry. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is anticipated to officially open the Google Hub, which will be housed within T-Hub. Together, T-Hub and Google will develop talent, accelerate AI-first startups, and establish direct connections to global markets and funding.In the realm of startups and digital innovation, the strategic alliance is seen as a first step toward the larg-er economic goal of making Telangana a $1 trillion econ-omy by 2034 and a $3 trillion economy by 2047. For in-depth meetings with entrepreneurs, student founders, and engineers, Google will send out senior specialists in the AI/ML, product, UX, and GTM sectors. Over 10,000 kids a year would be instilled with an early innovation attitude through customized tracks designed for fe-male entrepreneurs, Tier-2 innovators, and university talent. subscribers as it can create certain problems like policy misuse and also compliance issues due to the difficulty of such differentiation.As per TRAI's recommendation, the lowest spectrum auction price should be set at 3,500 per MHz per annum, and it was also suggested that satellite internet companies like Starlink, Jio Satellite, and OneWeb should pay 4% of their total revenue as spectrum charges. In case the 4% cut was not sufficient, the regulator proposed that the 3,500 per MHz per customer along with the 500 for urban users be utilized to motivate the operators to take off in the rural areas. DoT, however, seems to be advocating even higher prices contrary to what they report in the case of mobile satellite services while pushing the general trend of prices is higher.Besides, TRAI had put forward the idea of subsidies to satellite terminals, which at present cost between 20,000 and 50,000, to bring about the purchasing power for consumers all over India. This suggestion by DoT has also been sent back for more questioning.The industry has raised its voice in protest as well. COAI, in May when the Cellular Operators Association of India, wrote to the government denouncing TRAI's ideas, labeling them as "non-transparent, unfair, and unjustifiably low."
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