{"id":1043612,"date":"2026-10-15T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043612"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:27:34","slug":"sunil-bharti-mittal-mocks-musk-claims-airtel-ahead-of-starlink-in-satellite-internet-launch-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/sunil-bharti-mittal-mocks-musk-claims-airtel-ahead-of-starlink-in-satellite-internet-launch-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Bharti Mittal mocks Musk, claims Airtel ahead of Starlink in satellite internet launch lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Sunil Bharti Mittal has criticised Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, asserting that Airtel sought approval long before the billionaire&#8217;s satellite internet project and has been awaiting government permission. <\/p>\n<p>During his address at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Mittal said Bharti Airtel&#8217;s satellite internet initiative had its ground infrastructure set up and satellites in place for India, yet it was still pending the required approvals. He additionally proposed that Airtel should obtain approval prior to Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Sunil Bharti Mittal has criticised Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, asserting that Airtel sought approval long before the billionaire&#8217;s satellite internet project and has been awaiting government permission. During his address at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Mittal said Bharti Airtel&#8217;s satellite internet initiative had its ground infrastructure set up and satellites in place for India, yet it was still pending the required approvals. He additionally proposed that Airtel should obtain approval prior to Starlink.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043612","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=1043612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043654,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043612\/revisions\/1043654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}