{"id":1042421,"date":"2026-10-12T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042421"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:00:04","slug":"jio-oneweb-have-waited-longer-than-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/jio-oneweb-have-waited-longer-than-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio, OneWeb have waited longer than Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to Elon Musk\u2019s accusation that Indian oligarchs are blocking Starlink\u2019s entry to protect their monopolies \u2014 specifically targeting Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani \u2014 department of telecommunications (DoT) records show that Jio Satellite Communications and Bharti-backed OneWeb completed their security and technical compliance demonstrations well before Musk\u2019s company, yet remain unable to launch commercial services. <\/p>\n<p>Jio Satellite Communications (JSCL) completed its security and technical compliance demonstration on March 20, 2025, while OneWeb conducted its demonstration in the second half of 2025. Starlink\u2019s demonstration took place only in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to Elon Musk\u2019s accusation that Indian oligarchs are blocking Starlink\u2019s entry to protect their monopolies \u2014 specifically targeting Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani \u2014 department of telecommunications (DoT) records show that Jio Satellite Communications and Bharti-backed OneWeb completed their security and technical compliance demonstrations well before Musk\u2019s company, yet remain unable to launch commercial services. Jio Satellite Communications (JSCL) completed its security and technical compliance demonstration on March 20, 2025, while OneWeb conducted its demonstration in the second half of 2025. Starlink\u2019s demonstration took place only in early 2026.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042421","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=1042421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042472,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042421\/revisions\/1042472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}