{"id":1030015,"date":"2026-08-20T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030015"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:32:48","slug":"nelcos-direct-to-device-satcom-set-for-2028-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/nelcos-direct-to-device-satcom-set-for-2028-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelco\u2019s direct-to-device satcom set for 2028 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will be among the first markets for Nelco\u2019s direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity as the Tata Group-backed satellite communications provider plans to launch commercial services by early 2028. <\/p>\n<p>The company will also look to begin operations in other South Asian markets like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as it expands beyond its core satellite connectivity and capacity-reselling business. <\/p>\n<p>Nelco Managing Director and CEO P J Nath said the opportunity in the D2D market is large, adding over time D2D can become a significant part of the satellite communications ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will be among the first markets for Nelco\u2019s direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity as the Tata Group-backed satellite communications provider plans to launch commercial services by early 2028. The company will also look to begin operations in other South Asian markets like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as it expands beyond its core satellite connectivity and capacity-reselling business. Nelco Managing Director and CEO P J Nath said the opportunity in the D2D market is large, adding over time D2D can become a significant part of the satellite communications ecosystem.<\/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-1030015","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\/1030015","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=1030015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030038,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030015\/revisions\/1030038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}