{"id":1043380,"date":"2026-10-15T07:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043380"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:32:15","slug":"musks-company-unwilling-to-follow-india-rules-must-set-up-local-base-stations-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/musks-company-unwilling-to-follow-india-rules-must-set-up-local-base-stations-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s company unwilling to follow India rules, must set up local base stations: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Starlink&#8217;s reluctance to comply with Indian government rules mandating domestic infrastructure creation is hindering its ability to get licence for starting satellite communication services in the country, a senior official privy to the deliberations said Wednesday. The Elon Musk-owned company will need to first establish local &#8216;base stations&#8217; or satellite ground stations before being allowed to offer its services in India, the official said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Laws are the same for everyone,&#8221; the official told ET. &#8220;Starlink is not willing to comply with Indian regulations,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Starlink&#8217;s reluctance to comply with Indian government rules mandating domestic infrastructure creation is hindering its ability to get licence for starting satellite communication services in the country, a senior official privy to the deliberations said Wednesday. The Elon Musk-owned company will need to first establish local &#8216;base stations&#8217; or satellite ground stations before being allowed to offer its services in India, the official said. &#8220;Laws are the same for everyone,&#8221; the official told ET. &#8220;Starlink is not willing to comply with Indian regulations,&#8221; the official said.<\/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-1043380","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\/1043380","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=1043380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043395,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043380\/revisions\/1043395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}