{"id":936721,"date":"2025-06-05T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=936721"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:57:17","slug":"airtel-and-reliance-jio-send-letter-to-dot-on-elon-musks-starlink-says-businesses-will-suffer-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/05\/airtel-and-reliance-jio-send-letter-to-dot-on-elon-musks-starlink-says-businesses-will-suffer-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel and Reliance Jio send letter to DoT on Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, says: Businesses will suffer if &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s telecom giants, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have reportedly raised concerns over the proposed pricing of satellite spectrum, warning that &#8220;unjustifiably low&#8221; rates could harm their businesses while benefiting satellite internet providers like Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing these companies, urged the telecom ministry in a May 29 letter to reconsider the pricing structure proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).<\/p>\n<p>In May, TRAI suggested that satellite service providers pay 4% of their annual revenue to the government for offering services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s telecom giants, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have reportedly raised concerns over the proposed pricing of satellite spectrum, warning that &#8220;unjustifiably low&#8221; rates could harm their businesses while benefiting satellite internet providers like Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing these companies, urged the telecom ministry in a May 29 letter to reconsider the pricing structure proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In May, TRAI suggested that satellite service providers pay 4% of their annual revenue to the government for offering services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936721","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}