{"id":844231,"date":"2024-08-13T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844231"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:05:55","slug":"sri-lanka-regulator-grants-licence-to-musks-starlink-for-satellite-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/13\/sri-lanka-regulator-grants-licence-to-musks-starlink-for-satellite-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka regulator grants licence to Musk&#8217;s Starlink for satellite broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s telecommunications regulator has issued a licence to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services, the president&#8217;s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament passed a new telecommunications bill last month, which amended the law for the first time in 28 years and paved the way for Starlink Lanka to enter the country. <\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s Starlink had approached Sri Lanka in March with a proposal to set up operations, officials told Reuters last month. The company will have to pay a tariff for the licence, they said. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink, which owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth, is dominant in the satellite internet sphere. <\/p>\n<p>Musk has been trying to enter South Asia after expressing interest in launching Starlink in India. No formal plans have been announced yet. Starlink did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s telecommunications regulator has issued a licence to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services, the president&#8217;s office said. Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament passed a new telecommunications bill last month, which amended the law for the first time in 28 years and paved the way for Starlink Lanka to enter the country. Musk&#8217;s Starlink had approached Sri Lanka in March with a proposal to set up operations, officials told Reuters last month. The company will have to pay a tariff for the licence, they said. SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink, which owns around 60% [&hellip;]<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844231","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=844231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}