{"id":970543,"date":"2025-10-30T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970543"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:32:07","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-demo-runs-start-in-mumbai-this-week-why-dot-has-made-these-tests-mandatory-for-satellite-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/elon-musks-starlink-demo-runs-start-in-mumbai-this-week-why-dot-has-made-these-tests-mandatory-for-satellite-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink demo runs start in Mumbai this week; why DoT has made these tests mandatory for satellite companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink is reportedly scheduled to conduct demo runs in India on October 30 and 31. According to a report by news agency PTI, these tests are scheduled to run in Mumbai to show compliance with security and technical conditions for satellite broadband services. As per sources, the demo, to be done before law enforcement agencies, will be based on the provisional spectrum assigned to Starlink. These demos are an essential requirement for Starlink to secure clearances before it can launch commercial services in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink\u2019s India entry would help SpaceX compensate for being shut out of China, where the government has kept the market closed to foreign operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink is reportedly scheduled to conduct demo runs in India on October 30 and 31. According to a report by news agency PTI, these tests are scheduled to run in Mumbai to show compliance with security and technical conditions for satellite broadband services. As per sources, the demo, to be done before law enforcement agencies, will be based on the provisional spectrum assigned to Starlink. These demos are an essential requirement for Starlink to secure clearances before it can launch commercial services in the country. Starlink\u2019s India entry would help SpaceX compensate for being shut out of China, [&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-970543","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\/970543","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=970543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}