{"id":1049235,"date":"2026-11-14T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049235"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:54:12","slug":"sunil-mittal-says-india-must-hold-satellite-kill-switch-warns-against-dependence-on-single-provider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/sunil-mittal-says-india-must-hold-satellite-kill-switch-warns-against-dependence-on-single-provider-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Mittal says India must hold satellite &#8216;kill switch&#8217;, warns against dependence on single provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has called for India to retain control over the &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for satellite communications operating in the country, warning against dependence on a single foreign provider as the government weighs security conditions for the launch of satellite broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kill switch, as we call it, should not be sitting somewhere else. India must have control over its own space destiny,&#8221; Mittal said in an interview with PTI marking the 50th anniversary of Bharti Enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has called for India to retain control over the &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for satellite communications operating in the country, warning against dependence on a single foreign provider as the government weighs security conditions for the launch of satellite broadband services. &#8220;The kill switch, as we call it, should not be sitting somewhere else. India must have control over its own space destiny,&#8221; Mittal said in an interview with PTI marking the 50th anniversary of Bharti Enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1049235","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\/1049235","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049257,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049235\/revisions\/1049257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}