{"id":950591,"date":"2025-07-29T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950591"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:20:38","slug":"starlink-no-threat-to-telcos-connections-limited-to-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/29\/starlink-no-threat-to-telcos-connections-limited-to-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink no threat to telcos, connections limited to 2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink\u2019s upcoming launch in the country is unlikely to disrupt the domestic telecom market, with its capacity capped at around 2 million users and a steep pricing structure, minister of state for communications, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarlink can have only 2 million customers across the country and offer up to 200 Mbps speed. That won\u2019t affect telecom services,\u201d Pemmasani said, downplaying any direct threat to telcos like Jio, Airtel, or Vodafone Idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink\u2019s upcoming launch in the country is unlikely to disrupt the domestic telecom market, with its capacity capped at around 2 million users and a steep pricing structure, minister of state for communications, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said on Monday. \u201cStarlink can have only 2 million customers across the country and offer up to 200 Mbps speed. That won\u2019t affect telecom services,\u201d Pemmasani said, downplaying any direct threat to telcos like Jio, Airtel, or Vodafone Idea.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950591","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=950591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}