{"id":830744,"date":"2024-07-09T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830744"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:20:21","slug":"sri-lanka-set-to-amend-decades-old-law-to-pave-starlink-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/09\/sri-lanka-set-to-amend-decades-old-law-to-pave-starlink-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka set to amend decades-old law to pave Starlink entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament will vote this week to change a law to allow Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to set up operations in the South Asian island nation, a Sri Lankan minister told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new telecommunications bill, once it is passed in parliament, Sri Lanka will introduce a new license category that will allow Starlink to enter the country&#8217;s telecommunications space as a licensed service provider, said Kanaka Herath, the state minister of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament will vote this week to change a law to allow Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to set up operations in the South Asian island nation, a Sri Lankan minister told Reuters on Monday. Under the new telecommunications bill, once it is passed in parliament, Sri Lanka will introduce a new license category that will allow Starlink to enter the country&#8217;s telecommunications space as a licensed service provider, said Kanaka Herath, the state minister of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-830744","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\/830744","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}