{"id":799213,"date":"2021-11-27T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/27\/indian-govt-tells-public-to-shun-musk-backed-starlink-until-it-gets-licence\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T11:24:08","slug":"indian-govt-tells-public-to-shun-musk-backed-starlink-until-it-gets-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/27\/indian-govt-tells-public-to-shun-musk-backed-starlink-until-it-gets-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian govt tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government advised people against subscribing to Starlink Internet Services, a division of billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX aerospace company, as it does not have a licence to operate in the country. <\/p>\n<p>A government statement issued late on Friday said Starlink had been told to comply with regulations and refrain from &#8220;booking\/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Starlink registered its business in India on Nov.1. It has begun advertising, and according to the government, it has started pre-selling its service. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a Reuters email, Starlink said: &#8220;No comment for now&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>A growing number of companies are launching small satellites as part of a low-Earth orbiting network to provide low-latency broadband internet services around the world, with a particular focus on remote areas that terrestrial internet infrastructure struggles to reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government advised people against subscribing to Starlink Internet Services, a division of billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX aerospace company, as it does not have a licence to operate in the country. A government statement issued late on Friday said Starlink had been told to comply with regulations and refrain from &#8220;booking\/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect&#8221;. Starlink registered its business in India on Nov.1. It has begun advertising, and according to the government, it has started pre-selling its service. Responding to a Reuters email, Starlink said: &#8220;No comment for now&#8221;. A growing number of companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799213","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=799213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}