{"id":868470,"date":"2024-10-21T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=868470"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:05:05","slug":"spectrum-allocation-musks-win-over-ambani-debunks-2g-scam-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/21\/spectrum-allocation-musks-win-over-ambani-debunks-2g-scam-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum allocation: Musk\u2019s win over Ambani debunks 2G \u2018scam\u2019 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is significant that the Union government has backed Elon Musk\u2019s internet arm Starlink and Amazon over Mukesh Ambani Reliance and Sunil Mittal\u2019s Airtel by deciding to allot satellite spectrum administratively rather than take the auction route. <\/p>\n<p>The decision is a tacit admission the \u20182G scam\u2019 over a decade ago was a red herring, and the \u2018presumptive loss\u2019 of Rs 1.76 lakh crore alleged by CAG for not auctioning spectrum was at best creative imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is significant that the Union government has backed Elon Musk\u2019s internet arm Starlink and Amazon over Mukesh Ambani Reliance and Sunil Mittal\u2019s Airtel by deciding to allot satellite spectrum administratively rather than take the auction route. The decision is a tacit admission the \u20182G scam\u2019 over a decade ago was a red herring, and the \u2018presumptive loss\u2019 of Rs 1.76 lakh crore alleged by CAG for not auctioning spectrum was at best creative imagination.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868470","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=868470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}