{"id":964684,"date":"2025-09-27T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964684"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:44:32","slug":"starlinks-10x-higher-pricing-to-limit-threat-to-indian-telcos-ind-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/starlinks-10x-higher-pricing-to-limit-threat-to-indian-telcos-ind-ra\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink&#8217;s 10x higher pricing to limit threat to Indian telcos: Ind-Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink&#8217;s satellite internet services, set to begin trials in India within six months, are unlikely to pose a significant threat to the country&#8217;s home broadband market due to pricing nearly 10 times higher than existing entry-level fiber-based plans, India Ratings &amp; Research (Ind-Ra) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With expected monthly charges of \u20b93,000-3,500 and equipment costs of \u20b930,000-35,000, Starlink&#8217;s offering is aimed mainly at remote and underserved areas lacking reliable connectivity, rather than urban regions where fiber broadband plans start as low as \u20b9399, the rating agency said in a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink&#8217;s satellite internet services, set to begin trials in India within six months, are unlikely to pose a significant threat to the country&#8217;s home broadband market due to pricing nearly 10 times higher than existing entry-level fiber-based plans, India Ratings &amp; Research (Ind-Ra) said on Friday. With expected monthly charges of \u20b93,000-3,500 and equipment costs of \u20b930,000-35,000, Starlink&#8217;s offering is aimed mainly at remote and underserved areas lacking reliable connectivity, rather than urban regions where fiber broadband plans start as low as \u20b9399, the rating agency said in a report.<\/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-964684","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\/964684","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=964684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}