{"id":820595,"date":"2026-07-24T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:51:11","slug":"taiwan-eases-rules-on-foreign-telecom-satellites-eyes-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820595\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan eases rules on foreign telecom satellites, eyes Musk&#8217;s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Taipei signals security a key consideration; China lobs rhetorical warning shot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260723 Low-earth orbit satellite.\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Taiwan currently has no low-Earth orbit satellites of its own, a deficiency that the government is eager to address through partnerships and, eventually, with its own network. (Screenshot from\u00a0Taiwan Space Agency&#8217;s website)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; Taiwan has loosened rules on foreign ownership of satellite operators, potentially opening the door for Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink and others to run internet services there amid concerns that communications could be cut off in a crisis with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Taipei signals security a key consideration; China lobs rhetorical warning shot Taiwan currently has no low-Earth orbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,395639,16488,35430,246582,43495,20410,128,285,5707,11069,14919],"class_list":["post-820595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eases","tag-eyes","tag-foreign","tag-musks","tag-rules","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-space","tag-starlink","tag-taiwan","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}