{"id":1030541,"date":"2026-08-22T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030541"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:19:11","slug":"musk-pitches-starlink-for-rural-india-amid-regulatory-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/musk-pitches-starlink-for-rural-india-amid-regulatory-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk pitches Starlink for rural India amid regulatory wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has pitched Starlink as a solution to India\u2019s rural connectivity gap even as the satellite Internet company awaits regulatory clearances to begin commercial operations in the country. \u201cStarlink would help the least served in India, especially in rural areas,\u201d the SpaceX founder said in a post on X on Thursday. He was responding to a post by X account DogeDesigner, which highlighted the extent of India\u2019s connectivity gap and called for faster approval of Starlink services for remote villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has pitched Starlink as a solution to India\u2019s rural connectivity gap even as the satellite Internet company awaits regulatory clearances to begin commercial operations in the country. \u201cStarlink would help the least served in India, especially in rural areas,\u201d the SpaceX founder said in a post on X on Thursday. He was responding to a post by X account DogeDesigner, which highlighted the extent of India\u2019s connectivity gap and called for faster approval of Starlink services for remote villages.<\/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-1030541","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\/1030541","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=1030541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030542,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030541\/revisions\/1030542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}