{"id":972081,"date":"2025-11-06T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972081"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:24:30","slug":"maharashtra-in-pact-with-starlink-for-satellite-based-services-1st-state-to-tie-up-with-musk-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/maharashtra-in-pact-with-starlink-for-satellite-based-services-1st-state-to-tie-up-with-musk-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra in pact with Starlink for satellite-based services; 1st state to tie-up with Musk firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government on Wednesday announced partnership with billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite communications venture in India to deploy a host of satellite-based internet services, becoming the first Indian state to formally tie-up with the US firm.<\/p>\n<p>The government signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Starlink Satellite Communications Pvt Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Maharashtra as the first state to collaborate with Starlink to deploy satellite-based internet services for government institutions, rural communities, and critical public infrastructure across &#8220;remote and underserved regions and aspirational districts&#8221; such as Gadchiroli, Nandurbar, Washim and Dharashiv, said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government on Wednesday announced partnership with billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite communications venture in India to deploy a host of satellite-based internet services, becoming the first Indian state to formally tie-up with the US firm. The government signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Starlink Satellite Communications Pvt Ltd. This marks Maharashtra as the first state to collaborate with Starlink to deploy satellite-based internet services for government institutions, rural communities, and critical public infrastructure across &#8220;remote and underserved regions and aspirational districts&#8221; such as Gadchiroli, Nandurbar, Washim and Dharashiv, said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.<\/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-972081","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\/972081","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=972081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}