{"id":1041799,"date":"2026-10-08T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041799"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:54:33","slug":"blocked-by-certain-oligarchs-elon-musk-claims-starlinks-india-plans-being-blocked-by-vested-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/blocked-by-certain-oligarchs-elon-musk-claims-starlinks-india-plans-being-blocked-by-vested-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blocked by certain oligarchs&#8221;: Elon Musk claims Starlink&#8217;s India plans being blocked by vested interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorne (California) [US], October 7 (ANI): Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX the parent company of Satellitte communication major Starlink has weighed in on the company&#8217;s plans for India. <\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded reply to a post on X that detailed reasons for why India needs Starlink, Musk claimed that the company was being blocked by &#8216;oligarchs&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Musk said, &#8220;Unfortunately, we (Starlink) 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorne (California) [US], October 7 (ANI): Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX the parent company of Satellitte communication major Starlink has weighed in on the company&#8217;s plans for India. In a strongly worded reply to a post on X that detailed reasons for why India needs Starlink, Musk claimed that the company was being blocked by &#8216;oligarchs&#8217;. In a post on X, Musk said, &#8220;Unfortunately, we (Starlink) 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.&#8221;<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041799","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=1041799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041806,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041799\/revisions\/1041806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}