{"id":949998,"date":"2025-07-26T07:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949998"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:56:53","slug":"starlink-outage-leaves-thousands-offline-in-us-elon-musk-says-sorry-amid-internet-blackout-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/starlink-outage-leaves-thousands-offline-in-us-elon-musk-says-sorry-amid-internet-blackout-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink outage leaves thousands offline in US: Elon Musk says &#8216;sorry&#8217; amid internet blackout. What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet firm Starlink was hit by a massive global outage Thursday and thousands of users unable to get online in US. Over 60,000 global users reported issues and reports of disruption began at surge around 8pm GMT, according to Downdetector. In the UK alone, more than 10,000 users flagged problems with the service from 8pm. <\/p>\n<p>Of the reported issues with Starlink, 68% said there was a \u201ctotal blackout.\u201d Starlink\u2019s official account posted on X, formerly Twitter, and acknowledged the outage and reassured users it was working on a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet firm Starlink was hit by a massive global outage Thursday and thousands of users unable to get online in US. Over 60,000 global users reported issues and reports of disruption began at surge around 8pm GMT, according to Downdetector. In the UK alone, more than 10,000 users flagged problems with the service from 8pm. Of the reported issues with Starlink, 68% said there was a \u201ctotal blackout.\u201d Starlink\u2019s official account posted on X, formerly Twitter, and acknowledged the outage and reassured users it was working on a solution.<\/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-949998","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\/949998","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=949998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}