{"id":980564,"date":"2025-12-16T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980564"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:01:27","slug":"starlink-jio-airtel-face-further-delay-in-satellite-internet-rollout-amid-trai-dot-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/16\/starlink-jio-airtel-face-further-delay-in-satellite-internet-rollout-amid-trai-dot-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink, Jio, Airtel face further delay in satellite internet rollout amid TRAI\u2013DoT standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink, Jio and Airtel may have to wait longer than expected to launch satellite based internet services in India. According to a report by Economic Times, commercial rollout may take longer because of a standoff between the telecom regulator and the department of telecommunications (DoT) over spectrum pricing. The report quotes industry executives who said that the process could potentially take another 3-6 months amid upcoming personnel changes at the DoT and industry interference.<\/p>\n<p>Till date, Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite have completed most of the licensing and space-regulatory steps, including obtaining the Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) licence, and approvals from space-regulatory body In-SPACe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink, Jio and Airtel may have to wait longer than expected to launch satellite based internet services in India. According to a report by Economic Times, commercial rollout may take longer because of a standoff between the telecom regulator and the department of telecommunications (DoT) over spectrum pricing. The report quotes industry executives who said that the process could potentially take another 3-6 months amid upcoming personnel changes at the DoT and industry interference. Till date, Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite have completed most of the licensing and space-regulatory steps, including obtaining the Global Mobile Personal Communication [&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-980564","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\/980564","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=980564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}