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Elon Musk publicly questioned whether Mukesh Ambani is the 'real boss of India,' a day after blaming unnamed 'oligarchs' for stalling Starlink's entry into the Indian market despite five years of regulatory compliance. Ambani's Jio and rival Airtel control roughly 80% of India's telecom market. Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi responded with a jab referencing billionaire Gautam Adani, prompting Musk to call the exchange 'troubling.'
India's Ministry of Communications responded to Elon Musk's accusations that regulatory barriers are unfairly blocking Starlink's entry into the country. The ministry stated that all satellite operators, including Starlink, are subject to the same regulatory procedures and security assessments before obtaining spectrum licenses. Despite years of efforts and partnerships with local telecom firms, Starlink has yet to commence commercial services in India, which has over a billion internet users.
Elon Musk has claimed that powerful Indian telecom companies are preventing Starlink from launching in India to maintain their market dominance. He stated that this interference is a 'crime against the people of India' and highlighted the country's telecom market being controlled by Jio and Airtel, which together hold over 80% of the market. Despite plans announced last year, Starlink has yet to begin service in India.
T-Mobile has partnered with India's Jio to enable the world's first 5G standalone roaming link between their networks. This allows T-Mobile customers traveling to India, and Jio customers visiting the US, to connect directly to each carrier's full 5G standalone infrastructure instead of falling back to older network types.
Reliance Jio has expanded its JioPC cloud computing service beyond its own broadband subscribers, making it available to anyone with an internet connection regardless of telecom provider. The service streams a virtual PC with up to eight virtual CPUs, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, letting even computers up to eight years old run modern AI applications without hardware upgrades. Subscriptions range from about $11 for two months to roughly $53 for a full year of the higher-spec plan.