{"id":939277,"date":"2025-06-19T05:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939277"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:47:57","slug":"centre-trai-dismiss-telecom-companies-revenue-fears-on-satcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/centre-trai-dismiss-telecom-companies-revenue-fears-on-satcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre, Trai dismiss telecom companies revenue fears on satcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government and the telecom regulator have brushed aside fears of telecom operators that satellite communication players such as Starlink and Amazon Kuiper can eat into their revenue, saying the two services are different and satellite services will be offered at a much smaller scale.<\/p>\n<p>As per an analysis, Starlink can have a million customers by 2028-29, as against 75 million wireline broadband users and 1.2 billion 4G and 5G users, said officials. Satcom tariffs are set to be around eight times higher than those for terrestrial telecom services while the one-time hardware cost will be 13 times higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government and the telecom regulator have brushed aside fears of telecom operators that satellite communication players such as Starlink and Amazon Kuiper can eat into their revenue, saying the two services are different and satellite services will be offered at a much smaller scale. As per an analysis, Starlink can have a million customers by 2028-29, as against 75 million wireline broadband users and 1.2 billion 4G and 5G users, said officials. Satcom tariffs are set to be around eight times higher than those for terrestrial telecom services while the one-time hardware cost will be 13 times [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939277","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\/939277","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=939277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}