{"id":1042957,"date":"2026-10-14T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042957"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:48:13","slug":"satellite-network-a-technology-of-geopolitical-control-think-tank-for-hard-limits-on-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/satellite-network-a-technology-of-geopolitical-control-think-tank-for-hard-limits-on-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite network a &#8216;technology of geopolitical control&#8217;: Think tank for hard limits on Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An Indian policy group has urged the government to impose stringent, &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221; conditions on foreign satellite operators, arguing that SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink could give the United States strategic leverage over communications infrastructure and undermine India&#8217;s technological sovereignty. <\/p>\n<p>The Kutniti Foundation, in a report originally published in November 2024 and updated in October 2026, describes Starlink as (very candidly) &#8220;a technology of geopolitical control,&#8221; contending that satellite broadband is no longer simply a commercial service but an increasingly important instrument of military power, intelligence gathering and geopolitical influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An Indian policy group has urged the government to impose stringent, &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221; conditions on foreign satellite operators, arguing that SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink could give the United States strategic leverage over communications infrastructure and undermine India&#8217;s technological sovereignty. The Kutniti Foundation, in a report originally published in November 2024 and updated in October 2026, describes Starlink as (very candidly) &#8220;a technology of geopolitical control,&#8221; contending that satellite broadband is no longer simply a commercial service but an increasingly important instrument of military power, intelligence gathering and geopolitical influence.<\/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-1042957","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\/1042957","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=1042957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042985,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042957\/revisions\/1042985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}