{"id":988699,"date":"2026-01-30T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988699"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:21:13","slug":"nelco-yotta-application-for-starting-satellite-based-communication-service-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/nelco-yotta-application-for-starting-satellite-based-communication-service-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelco, Yotta application for starting satellite-based communication service rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has refused to grant global mobile personal communication by satellite (GMPCS) authorisation to Tata-owned Nelco and Yotta Network Services. The licence is needed to provide satellite-based communication services. <\/p>\n<p>DoT has, so far, given GMPCS licence only to Jio Satellite, Starlink and OneWeb India, according to minister of state for communications and rural development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has refused to grant global mobile personal communication by satellite (GMPCS) authorisation to Tata-owned Nelco and Yotta Network Services. The licence is needed to provide satellite-based communication services. DoT has, so far, given GMPCS licence only to Jio Satellite, Starlink and OneWeb India, according to minister of state for communications and rural development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar.<\/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-988699","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\/988699","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=988699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}