{"id":1043534,"date":"2026-10-15T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043534"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:55:56","slug":"satcom-wait-drags-on-for-bharti-says-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/satcom-wait-drags-on-for-bharti-says-mittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Satcom wait drags on for Bharti, says Mittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Wednesday that Eutelsat OneWeb should be cleared to offer satellite broadband in India before Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink, citing that Bharti\u2019s application has been pending for five years. <\/p>\n<p>Asked at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum about Musk\u2019s remarks on Indian telecom billionaires, Mittal said Bharti believes it is \u201csignificantly ahead\u201d in the queue. Its ground network has been ready for three years and its satellites have been over India for five, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Wednesday that Eutelsat OneWeb should be cleared to offer satellite broadband in India before Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink, citing that Bharti\u2019s application has been pending for five years. Asked at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum about Musk\u2019s remarks on Indian telecom billionaires, Mittal said Bharti believes it is \u201csignificantly ahead\u201d in the queue. Its ground network has been ready for three years and its satellites have been over India for five, he 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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043534","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\/1043534","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=1043534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043544,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043534\/revisions\/1043544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}