{"id":1043406,"date":"2026-10-15T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043406"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:40:47","slug":"well-be-very-happy-to-get-it-at-least-a-few-days-before-him-sunil-bharti-mittal-on-musks-starlink-satellite-internet-approval-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/well-be-very-happy-to-get-it-at-least-a-few-days-before-him-sunil-bharti-mittal-on-musks-starlink-satellite-internet-approval-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ll be very happy to get it at least a few days before him\u2019: Sunil Bharti Mittal on Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite internet approval in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said he was ahead of Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink in the queue for satellite services approvals in India, adding that his company had been waiting for clearances despite having its ground network ready for three years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all awaiting our approvals. I think I am significantly ahead in the queue from him. I applied five years back. I have my ground network ready for the last three years. My satellites have been hovering over India for the last five years,\u201d Mittal said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said he was ahead of Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink in the queue for satellite services approvals in India, adding that his company had been waiting for clearances despite having its ground network ready for three years. \u201cWe are all awaiting our approvals. I think I am significantly ahead in the queue from him. I applied five years back. I have my ground network ready for the last three years. My satellites have been hovering over India for the last five years,\u201d Mittal said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043406","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\/1043406","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=1043406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043422,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043406\/revisions\/1043422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}