{"id":964165,"date":"2025-09-25T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964165"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:09:16","slug":"dot-downplays-concerns-of-telcos-on-satcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/dot-downplays-concerns-of-telcos-on-satcom\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT downplays concerns of telcos on satcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has downplayed concerns raised by telcos, particularly Reliance Jio, on recommendations for satcom spectrum pricing given by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).<\/p>\n<p>Officials told ET Jio had written to the DoT in June, highlighting its concerns over Trai\u2019s spectrum pricing recommendations, saying it\u2019s too low.<\/p>\n<p>While the department will be asking Trai to reconsider the proposals, it feels that in the near to medium term, satcom providers won\u2019t be big enough in terms of subscribers to compete or eat into telcos\u2019 fixed broadband revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has downplayed concerns raised by telcos, particularly Reliance Jio, on recommendations for satcom spectrum pricing given by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Officials told ET Jio had written to the DoT in June, highlighting its concerns over Trai\u2019s spectrum pricing recommendations, saying it\u2019s too low. While the department will be asking Trai to reconsider the proposals, it feels that in the near to medium term, satcom providers won\u2019t be big enough in terms of subscribers to compete or eat into telcos\u2019 fixed broadband revenues.<\/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-964165","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\/964165","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=964165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}