{"id":1014221,"date":"2026-06-13T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014221"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:58:43","slug":"explainer-why-starlink-is-under-scrutiny-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/explainer-why-starlink-is-under-scrutiny-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Why Starlink is under scrutiny once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh questions over Starlink\u2019s proposed launch in India have shifted attention from licensing and spectrum allocation to a broader issue: how satellite broadband networks should operate within the country\u2019s security framework. Rishi Raj explains the issues involved <\/p>\n<p>l  What is the trigger? <\/p>\n<p>STARLINK, THE SATELLITE broadband service owned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, has come under fresh scrutiny in India despite securing key regulatory approvals, including a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite Services (GMPCS) licence and authorisation from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe). The issue is not whether the company can operate in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh questions over Starlink\u2019s proposed launch in India have shifted attention from licensing and spectrum allocation to a broader issue: how satellite broadband networks should operate within the country\u2019s security framework. Rishi Raj explains the issues involved l What is the trigger? STARLINK, THE SATELLITE broadband service owned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, has come under fresh scrutiny in India despite securing key regulatory approvals, including a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite Services (GMPCS) licence and authorisation from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe). The issue is not whether the company can operate in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014237,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014221\/revisions\/1014237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}