{"id":1041745,"date":"2026-10-08T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041745"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:15:21","slug":"musk-blames-oligarchs-for-starlink-delay-as-spacex-says-service-ready-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/musk-blames-oligarchs-for-starlink-delay-as-spacex-says-service-ready-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk blames \u2018oligarchs\u2019 for Starlink delay as SpaceX says service ready for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused unnamed \u201coligarchs\u201d of blocking Starlink\u2019s entry into India, even as a senior company executive said the satellite internet service was ready to begin operations once it receives the necessary government clearances. <\/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 \u2026 This is a crime against the people of India!\u201d Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused unnamed \u201coligarchs\u201d of blocking Starlink\u2019s entry into India, even as a senior company executive said the satellite internet service was ready to begin operations once it receives the necessary government clearances. \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 \u2026 This is a crime against the people of India!\u201d Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041745","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=1041745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041757,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041745\/revisions\/1041757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}