{"id":1030913,"date":"2026-08-25T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030913"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:27:50","slug":"singtel-seeks-fdi-approval-to-enter-indias-satellite-communications-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/singtel-seeks-fdi-approval-to-enter-indias-satellite-communications-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Singtel seeks FDI approval to enter India\u2019s satellite communications market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) is looking to start satellite communication-related services in India, becoming the latest global aspirant in the country&#8217;s nascent but high-potential satcom market. <\/p>\n<p>Singtel plans to target both public and private enterprises with its satcom offerings through its wholly owned unit, Singapore Telecom India (STIPL), people familiar with the matter told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The company has sought foreign direct investment (FDI) approval from the Centre for its plan, the people said. &#8220;While STIPL has been operational in India for more than two decades, a fresh FDI nod is needed as the company is expanding its scope to include satellite communication-related services,&#8221; said one of the persons cited, requesting anonymity as the details are not public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) is looking to start satellite communication-related services in India, becoming the latest global aspirant in the country&#8217;s nascent but high-potential satcom market. Singtel plans to target both public and private enterprises with its satcom offerings through its wholly owned unit, Singapore Telecom India (STIPL), people familiar with the matter told ET. The company has sought foreign direct investment (FDI) approval from the Centre for its plan, the people said. &#8220;While STIPL has been operational in India for more than two decades, a fresh FDI nod is needed as the company is expanding its scope to [&hellip;]<\/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-1030913","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\/1030913","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=1030913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030927,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030913\/revisions\/1030927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}