{"id":1041948,"date":"2026-10-09T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041948"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:48:18","slug":"oneweb-is-waiting-too-bharti-airtel-chairman-sunil-bharti-mittal-responds-to-musks-allegations-of-bias-in-satellite-service-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/oneweb-is-waiting-too-bharti-airtel-chairman-sunil-bharti-mittal-responds-to-musks-allegations-of-bias-in-satellite-service-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;OneWeb is waiting too&#8217;: Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal responds to Musk\u2019s allegations of bias in satellite service approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dismissing Elon Musk&#8217;s allegations that his satcom company Starlink is being blocked in India, Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said that even his satcom venture, Eutelsat OneWeb, is awaiting approvals to start operations. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Musk alleged that &#8220;certain oligarchs&#8221; have blocked Starlink in India to maintain their monopoly. <\/p>\n<p>Musk did not explicitly name any company but said, &#8220;You can guess who they are&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dismissing Elon Musk&#8217;s allegations that his satcom company Starlink is being blocked in India, Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said that even his satcom venture, Eutelsat OneWeb, is awaiting approvals to start operations. On Wednesday, Musk alleged that &#8220;certain oligarchs&#8221; have blocked Starlink in India to maintain their monopoly. Musk did not explicitly name any company but said, &#8220;You can guess who they are&#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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041948","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\/1041948","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=1041948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041971,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041948\/revisions\/1041971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}