{"id":1042361,"date":"2026-10-12T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042361"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:02:54","slug":"musk-steps-up-starlink-push-says-competition-would-benefit-indians-hits-out-at-army-of-internet-shills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/musk-steps-up-starlink-push-says-competition-would-benefit-indians-hits-out-at-army-of-internet-shills\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk steps up Starlink push, says &#8220;competition would benefit Indians&#8221;, hits out at &#8220;army of Internet shills&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also heads satellite communications company Starlink, on Saturday (local time) further argued for Starlink&#8217;s proposal for commercial operations in the Indian market, arguing that competition would give consumers more choices. <\/p>\n<p>He also targeted the head of a leading Indian conglomerate, describing arguments against Starlink&#8217;s entry as &#8220;absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole&#8221; and those defending the existing market as &#8220;an army of Internet shills.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also heads satellite communications company Starlink, on Saturday (local time) further argued for Starlink&#8217;s proposal for commercial operations in the Indian market, arguing that competition would give consumers more choices. He also targeted the head of a leading Indian conglomerate, describing arguments against Starlink&#8217;s entry as &#8220;absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole&#8221; and those defending the existing market as &#8220;an army of Internet shills.&#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-1042361","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\/1042361","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=1042361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042370,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042361\/revisions\/1042370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}