{"id":1041975,"date":"2026-10-09T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041975"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:50:05","slug":"musk-pitches-starlink-for-indias-no-internet-no-network-areas-a-day-after-oligarchs-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/musk-pitches-starlink-for-indias-no-internet-no-network-areas-a-day-after-oligarchs-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk pitches Starlink for India&#8217;s no-internet, no-network areas a day after &#8216;oligarchs&#8217; charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is pressing his India pitch for Starlink, saying satellite internet can fill coverage gaps in areas with bad or no internet and even no mobile network. This comes a day after he accused unnamed &#8220;oligarchs&#8221; of blocking its entry. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Musk shared posts from Indian users on X complaining about telecom services in their areas. He quoted a post by an X user named Nitin Meshram, according to a PTI report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is pressing his India pitch for Starlink, saying satellite internet can fill coverage gaps in areas with bad or no internet and even no mobile network. This comes a day after he accused unnamed &#8220;oligarchs&#8221; of blocking its entry. On Thursday, Musk shared posts from Indian users on X complaining about telecom services in their areas. He quoted a post by an X user named Nitin Meshram, according to a PTI report.<\/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-1041975","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\/1041975","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=1041975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041977,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041975\/revisions\/1041977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}