{"id":939795,"date":"2025-06-19T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939795"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:15:58","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-gets-approval-to-launch-india-operations-expected-price-hardware-requirement-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/elon-musks-starlink-gets-approval-to-launch-india-operations-expected-price-hardware-requirement-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink gets approval to launch India operations: Expected price, hardware requirement and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, has officially secured operating rights in India, a development confirmed by union minister for communications, Jyotiraditya Scindia, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). This approval essentially means that Starlink can now provide its services in the competitive Indian telecommunications market.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation follows a &#8220;productive meeting&#8221; between Scindia and SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell. Their discussions, as detailed by Scindia on X, &#8220;delved into opportunities for collaboration in satellite communications to power Digital India\u2019s soaring ambitions and empower every citizen across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, has officially secured operating rights in India, a development confirmed by union minister for communications, Jyotiraditya Scindia, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). This approval essentially means that Starlink can now provide its services in the competitive Indian telecommunications market. The confirmation follows a &#8220;productive meeting&#8221; between Scindia and SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell. Their discussions, as detailed by Scindia on X, &#8220;delved into opportunities for collaboration in satellite communications to power Digital India\u2019s soaring ambitions and empower every citizen across the country.&#8221;<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939795","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=939795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}