{"id":970852,"date":"2025-10-31T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970852"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:32:18","slug":"starlink-to-hold-demo-runs-in-mumbai-ahead-of-commercial-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/31\/starlink-to-hold-demo-runs-in-mumbai-ahead-of-commercial-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink to hold demo runs in Mumbai ahead of commercial launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-led Starlink is scheduled to conduct demonstration runs on October 30 and 31 in Mumbai to showcase compliance with security and technical conditions for satellite broadband services. <\/p>\n<p>According to a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official, the demos\u2014conducted in the presence of law enforcement agencies\u2014will be based on the provisional spectrum assigned to Starlink. The move marks a significant step toward the company\u2019s planned entry into the Indian satellite broadband market, as these trials are an essential requirement for obtaining regulatory clearances before launching commercial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-led Starlink is scheduled to conduct demonstration runs on October 30 and 31 in Mumbai to showcase compliance with security and technical conditions for satellite broadband services. According to a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official, the demos\u2014conducted in the presence of law enforcement agencies\u2014will be based on the provisional spectrum assigned to Starlink. The move marks a significant step toward the company\u2019s planned entry into the Indian satellite broadband market, as these trials are an essential requirement for obtaining regulatory clearances before launching commercial services.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970852","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=970852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}