{"id":985447,"date":"2026-01-14T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985447"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:19:45","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-offers-free-starlink-in-iran-amid-internet-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/elon-musks-spacex-offers-free-starlink-in-iran-amid-internet-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX offers free Starlink in Iran amid Internet Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX is giving free Starlink satellite service in Iran, reports Bloomberg. It quotes Ahmad Ahmadian, executive director of the US group Holistic Resilience who said that the company has waived the Starlink subscription fee in the country hit with days-long internet blackout. This means that Iranians with Starlink receivers can access internet service without paying. Notably, Starlink is yet to officially confirm the same.<\/p>\n<p>This comes days after US President Donald Trump said that he will talk to Elon Musk to use Starlink to help people in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX is giving free Starlink satellite service in Iran, reports Bloomberg. It quotes Ahmad Ahmadian, executive director of the US group Holistic Resilience who said that the company has waived the Starlink subscription fee in the country hit with days-long internet blackout. This means that Iranians with Starlink receivers can access internet service without paying. Notably, Starlink is yet to officially confirm the same. This comes days after US President Donald Trump said that he will talk to Elon Musk to use Starlink to help people in Iran.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985447","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=985447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}