{"id":1041705,"date":"2026-10-08T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041705"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:40:42","slug":"monopolistic-chokehold-musk-accuses-oligarchs-of-blocking-starlink-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/monopolistic-chokehold-musk-accuses-oligarchs-of-blocking-starlink-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monopolistic chokehold\u2019: Musk accuses \u2018oligarchs\u2019 of blocking Starlink in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has called out unnamed Indian \u201coligarchs\u201d of blocking Starlink\u2019s entry into the country, alleging that they are trying to protect their hold over India\u2019s telecom market. The SpaceX founder made the comments on X as Starlink waits for the final approvals needed to start commercial satellite internet services in India. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are,\u201d Musk wrote on X. \u201cThis is a crime against the people of India!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has called out unnamed Indian \u201coligarchs\u201d of blocking Starlink\u2019s entry into the country, alleging that they are trying to protect their hold over India\u2019s telecom market. The SpaceX founder made the comments on X as Starlink waits for the final approvals needed to start commercial satellite internet services in India. \u201cUnfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are,\u201d Musk wrote on X. \u201cThis is a crime against the people of India!\u201d he added.<\/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-1041705","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\/1041705","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=1041705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041724,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041705\/revisions\/1041724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}