{"id":1042227,"date":"2026-10-10T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042227"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:27:34","slug":"apply-same-rules-on-satcom-players-intending-to-use-spectrum-being-used-by-mobile-players-airtel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/10\/apply-same-rules-on-satcom-players-intending-to-use-spectrum-being-used-by-mobile-players-airtel\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply same rules on satcom players intending to use spectrum being used by mobile players: Airtel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Satcom players intending to use spectrum used by mobile service providers should face rules similar to those that apply to telecom players, a senior Bharti Airtel official said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Telecom operators in India are currently required to get spectrum for mobile services only through auction, while satellite players have been allowed to get spectrum through an administrative process. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel Director for Corporate Affairs and Group Chief Regulatory Officer Rahul Vatts told PTI at India Mobile Congress that services satcom players provide through administrative allocation differ from the new Direct-to-Device technology, in which satellites can transmit signals directly to mobile devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Satcom players intending to use spectrum used by mobile service providers should face rules similar to those that apply to telecom players, a senior Bharti Airtel official said on Friday. Telecom operators in India are currently required to get spectrum for mobile services only through auction, while satellite players have been allowed to get spectrum through an administrative process. Bharti Airtel Director for Corporate Affairs and Group Chief Regulatory Officer Rahul Vatts told PTI at India Mobile Congress that services satcom players provide through administrative allocation differ from the new Direct-to-Device technology, in which satellites can transmit signals [&hellip;]<\/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-1042227","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\/1042227","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=1042227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042251,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042227\/revisions\/1042251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}