{"id":968958,"date":"2025-10-23T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968958"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:44:00","slug":"satcom-wont-replace-cellular-networks-t-mobile-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/23\/satcom-wont-replace-cellular-networks-t-mobile-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Satcom won&#8217;t replace cellular networks: T-Mobile executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Satellite-based broadband services would not be able to replace terrestrial networks due to indoor coverage challenges, a top T-Mobile executive said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (satcom) cannot replace the cellular network, because lots of users are indoors. It&#8217;s always going to be complimentary,&#8221; Ankur Kapoor, Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile told ETTelecom.<\/p>\n<p>Kapoor said that users won&#8217;t be able to use satellite coverage as it doesn&#8217;t get indoors, but have a use case in rural and remote locations since it&#8217;s not profitable to deploy wireless networks in those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Satellite-based broadband services would not be able to replace terrestrial networks due to indoor coverage challenges, a top T-Mobile executive said. &#8220;It (satcom) cannot replace the cellular network, because lots of users are indoors. It&#8217;s always going to be complimentary,&#8221; Ankur Kapoor, Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile told ETTelecom. Kapoor said that users won&#8217;t be able to use satellite coverage as it doesn&#8217;t get indoors, but have a use case in rural and remote locations since it&#8217;s not profitable to deploy wireless networks in those areas.<\/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-968958","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\/968958","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=968958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}