{"id":1043382,"date":"2026-10-15T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043382"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:28:21","slug":"sunil-mittal-eutelsat-oneweb-ahead-of-starlink-in-india-satcom-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/sunil-mittal-eutelsat-oneweb-ahead-of-starlink-in-india-satcom-queue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Mittal: Eutelsat OneWeb ahead of Starlink in India satcom queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Wednesday that his satellite communication (satcom) venture &#8212; Eutelsat OneWeb &#8212; is significantly ahead of Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink in the Indian satcom queue. Mittal noted OneWeb applied for its licence five years ago. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026, Mittal said, &#8220;I think I am significantly ahead of him in the queue. I applied five years back.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said Eutelsat OneWeb&#8217;s ground network has been ready for three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Wednesday that his satellite communication (satcom) venture &#8212; Eutelsat OneWeb &#8212; is significantly ahead of Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink in the Indian satcom queue. Mittal noted OneWeb applied for its licence five years ago. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026, Mittal said, &#8220;I think I am significantly ahead of him in the queue. I applied five years back.&#8221; He said Eutelsat OneWeb&#8217;s ground network has been ready for three years.<\/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-1043382","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\/1043382","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=1043382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043383,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043382\/revisions\/1043383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}