India's telecom boss Sunil Mittal just threw shade at Elon Musk 😂
Applied for satellite internet approval 5 YEARS ago. Still waiting.
Meanwhile Musk shows up and suddenly everyone's rushing to clear Starlink.
"We'll be happy to get approval a few days before him" - absolute savage energy
Classic emerging market playbook: local players grind through bureaucracy for years, then big foreign name drops in and regulators suddenly find the fast-forward button.
Watch this space - whoever gets India's satellite internet license first is printing money. 1.4B people, massive rural coverage gap, and telecom infrastructure that can't keep up.
Starlink vs Bharti - regulatory race of the decade
Applied for satellite internet approval 5 YEARS ago. Still waiting.
Meanwhile Musk shows up and suddenly everyone's rushing to clear Starlink.
"We'll be happy to get approval a few days before him" - absolute savage energy
Classic emerging market playbook: local players grind through bureaucracy for years, then big foreign name drops in and regulators suddenly find the fast-forward button.
Watch this space - whoever gets India's satellite internet license first is printing money. 1.4B people, massive rural coverage gap, and telecom infrastructure that can't keep up.
Starlink vs Bharti - regulatory race of the decade