{"id":1041976,"date":"2026-10-09T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041976"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:50:41","slug":"oligarchs-india-responds-after-musks-allegations-of-bias-in-satellite-service-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/oligarchs-india-responds-after-musks-allegations-of-bias-in-satellite-service-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Oligarchs! India responds after Musk&#8217;s allegations of bias in satellite service approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central government on Thursday dismissed claims of bias in its satellite communication approvals as &#8220;baseless and misconceived,&#8221; maintaining that Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink and other global operators face an identical, non-discriminatory security vetting process before receiving spectrum. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A post is being circulated in social media regarding the fairness of India\u2019s regulatory framework for satellite communication services and suggesting that it is being applied in a discriminatory manner. The Government has put in place a fair and non-discriminatory authorisation framework for all telecommunication services, including satellite communication services,&#8221; said Centre without naming Elon Musk or Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central government on Thursday dismissed claims of bias in its satellite communication approvals as &#8220;baseless and misconceived,&#8221; maintaining that Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink and other global operators face an identical, non-discriminatory security vetting process before receiving spectrum. &#8220;A post is being circulated in social media regarding the fairness of India\u2019s regulatory framework for satellite communication services and suggesting that it is being applied in a discriminatory manner. The Government has put in place a fair and non-discriminatory authorisation framework for all telecommunication services, including satellite communication services,&#8221; said Centre without naming Elon Musk or Starlink.<\/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-1041976","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\/1041976","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=1041976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041979,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041976\/revisions\/1041979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}