{"id":960222,"date":"2025-09-09T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960222"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:54:40","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-to-begin-satellite-internet-trial-in-india-soon-holds-infrastructural-talks-with-jio-airtel-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/elon-musks-starlink-to-begin-satellite-internet-trial-in-india-soon-holds-infrastructural-talks-with-jio-airtel-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink to begin satellite internet trial in India soon; holds infrastructural talks with Jio, Airtel and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service, Starlink, is preparing to launch the trial of its services in India. The world\u2019s largest satellite broadband company has repiortedly started talks with major telecom and data center companies to build its terrestrial infrastructure. A report cited people aware of the matter to claim that the company is in advanced discussions with Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Tata Communications, data centre operators such as Sify Technologies, STT, Equinix and CtrlS Datacenters, internet exchange providers (IXP) like DE-CIX and Extreme as well as fibre infrastructure players including Microscan.<\/p>\n<p>These partnerships will help Starlink establish the necessary ground infrastructure to support its satellite connectivity at a large scale. Analysts estimate the initial capital expenditure for the project to be around Rs 500 crore, a report by the Economic Times (ET) added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service, Starlink, is preparing to launch the trial of its services in India. The world\u2019s largest satellite broadband company has repiortedly started talks with major telecom and data center companies to build its terrestrial infrastructure. A report cited people aware of the matter to claim that the company is in advanced discussions with Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Tata Communications, data centre operators such as Sify Technologies, STT, Equinix and CtrlS Datacenters, internet exchange providers (IXP) like DE-CIX and Extreme as well as fibre infrastructure players including Microscan. These partnerships will help Starlink establish the necessary [&hellip;]<\/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-960222","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\/960222","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=960222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}