{"id":1032045,"date":"2026-08-31T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032045"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:14:30","slug":"uae-regulator-grants-starlink-10-year-licence-to-provide-satellite-internet-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/uae-regulator-grants-starlink-10-year-licence-to-provide-satellite-internet-services\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE regulator grants Starlink 10-year licence to provide satellite internet services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The UAE&#8217;s Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has granted Starlink Satellite Communications LLC a 10-year General Space Services Licence to establish, operate and manage a public satellite communications network and provide broadband satellite internet services in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The licence was granted to the company owned by Elon Musk on August 28. It adds a space-based layer to the UAE&#8217;s digital infrastructure alongside existing fibre-optic and 5G networks. According to TDRA, the move is aimed at diversifying connectivity options, strengthening network resilience and ensuring continuity of telecommunications services under different conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The UAE&#8217;s Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has granted Starlink Satellite Communications LLC a 10-year General Space Services Licence to establish, operate and manage a public satellite communications network and provide broadband satellite internet services in the country. The licence was granted to the company owned by Elon Musk on August 28. It adds a space-based layer to the UAE&#8217;s digital infrastructure alongside existing fibre-optic and 5G networks. According to TDRA, the move is aimed at diversifying connectivity options, strengthening network resilience and ensuring continuity of telecommunications services under different conditions.<\/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-1032045","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\/1032045","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=1032045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032070,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032045\/revisions\/1032070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}