Starlink has waited five years to enter India, and Musk has now set the bar on pricing.
In a post on social media, he said that if Starlink is too expensive in India, nobody will buy it, so its price has to be affordable for ordinary people. Mobile data in India costs less than eight cents per GB, making it among the cheapest in the world. That statement puts the bar squarely in plain sight.
Two days earlier, he had publicly called out Reliance Group chairman Mukesh Ambani, asking whether he would consider letting Starlink compete, while also questioning whether the approval process favored Reliance. India’s communications minister responded at an industry conference, saying that regulators are neutral on technology and that none of the three licensed satellite operators had yet received final security clearance.
The parent company of Reliance’s Jio Platforms is preparing to go public, with a target valuation of about $106 billion and a subscription window set for October 21 to 23. The timing of this escalating war of words came after the subscription window had been finalized.
In a post on social media, he said that if Starlink is too expensive in India, nobody will buy it, so its price has to be affordable for ordinary people. Mobile data in India costs less than eight cents per GB, making it among the cheapest in the world. That statement puts the bar squarely in plain sight.
Two days earlier, he had publicly called out Reliance Group chairman Mukesh Ambani, asking whether he would consider letting Starlink compete, while also questioning whether the approval process favored Reliance. India’s communications minister responded at an industry conference, saying that regulators are neutral on technology and that none of the three licensed satellite operators had yet received final security clearance.
The parent company of Reliance’s Jio Platforms is preparing to go public, with a target valuation of about $106 billion and a subscription window set for October 21 to 23. The timing of this escalating war of words came after the subscription window had been finalized.