{"id":929742,"date":"2025-05-10T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=929742"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:32:15","slug":"starlink-other-satcom-firms-to-pay-4-revenue-as-spectrum-charges-trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/10\/starlink-other-satcom-firms-to-pay-4-revenue-as-spectrum-charges-trai\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink, other satcom firms to pay 4% revenue as spectrum charges: TRAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday recommended that satellite communication companies like Starlink pay 4 per cent of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as spectrum charges to the government \u2014 a rate steeper than what these firms had been lobbying for. <\/p>\n<p>Operators offering satellite-based broadband internet services in urban areas would have to shell out an additional Rs 500 per subscriber, annually, TRAI said in its recommendations to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday recommended that satellite communication companies like Starlink pay 4 per cent of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as spectrum charges to the government \u2014 a rate steeper than what these firms had been lobbying for. Operators offering satellite-based broadband internet services in urban areas would have to shell out an additional Rs 500 per subscriber, annually, TRAI said in its recommendations to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929742","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=929742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}