{"id":1014642,"date":"2026-06-16T07:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014642"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:11:07","slug":"starlink-eutelsat-oneweb-ses-india-under-signal-spillage-scrutiny-from-mha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/starlink-eutelsat-oneweb-ses-india-under-signal-spillage-scrutiny-from-mha\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink, Eutelsat-OneWeb, SES India under &#8216;signal spillage&#8217; scrutiny from MHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is examining national security-related issues such as &#8220;signal spillage&#8221; in border areas before it can approve satellite companies &#8212; the US-based Starlink, British Eutelsat-OneWeb and Luxembourg-based SES, according to a top government source. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security has always been an important issue, especially in terms of signal spillage into the borders. So that&#8217;s a national concern, and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is working on that front,&#8221; a senior government official told ET, adding that security remains a top priority before approving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is examining national security-related issues such as &#8220;signal spillage&#8221; in border areas before it can approve satellite companies &#8212; the US-based Starlink, British Eutelsat-OneWeb and Luxembourg-based SES, according to a top government source. &#8220;Security has always been an important issue, especially in terms of signal spillage into the borders. So that&#8217;s a national concern, and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is working on that front,&#8221; a senior government official told ET, adding that security remains a top priority before approving.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014642","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=1014642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014662,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014642\/revisions\/1014662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}