{"id":23877,"date":"2025-03-13T07:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23877"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:27:30","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-pushes-its-way-into-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23877","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink Pushes Its Way Into India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By signing deals with India\u2019s two biggest telecom players, the tech tycoon and Trump adviser has improved his odds of breaking into an enormous market.<\/p>\n

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Starlink, Elon Musk\u2019s satellite communications company, fought behind the scenes for months to break into India\u2019s internet business. The market is dominated by two local giants, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, who seemed united in trying to keep Starlink out.<\/p>\n

Then, suddenly, this week each of them announced a partnership to bring Starlink into India, pending the government\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

Jio, a branch of India\u2019s biggest corporation, said<\/a> on Tuesday it would team up with Starlink \u201cto deliver reliable broadband services across the country, including in the most remote and rural regions.\u201d Hours earlier, Airtel had celebrated a deal in similar terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The support of two of India\u2019s most influential tycoons, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance and Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti Airtel, was a breakthrough for Mr. Musk, whose businesses have tried for years to gain access to India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, Starlink\u2019s parent company, said in a statement accompanying Jio\u2019s announcement that she looked forward to \u201creceiving authorization from the government of India to provide more people, organizations and businesses with access to Starlink\u2019s high-speed internet services.\u201d Airtel noted that its partnership would be \u201csubject to SpaceX receiving its own authorizations.\u201d With local partners, who hold the government\u2019s ear, Starlink\u2019s odds look stronger.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Musk stands side by side with President Trump, trying to aggressively shrink the government<\/a> of the United States, his business dealings around the world have become even more prominent<\/a>. In India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to placate Mr. Trump<\/a> to avoid tariffs, Mr. Musk\u2019s long struggle to crack the market for his car company, Tesla, has attracted a lot of attention<\/a>. But Starlink could be a bigger prize.<\/p>\n

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By signing deals with India\u2019s two biggest telecom players, the tech tycoon and Trump adviser has improved his odds of breaking into an enormous market.Starlink, Elon Musk\u2019s satellite communications company, fought behind the scenes for months to break into India\u2019s internet business. The market is dominated by two local giants, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, who seemed united in trying to keep Starlink out.Then, suddenly, this week each of them announced a partnership to bring Starlink into India, pending the government\u2019s approval.Jio, a branch of India\u2019s biggest corporation, said on Tuesday it would team up with Starlink \u201cto deliver reliable broadband services across the country, including in the most remote and rural regions.\u201d Hours earlier, Airtel had celebrated a deal in similar terms.The support of two of India\u2019s most influential tycoons, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance and Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti Airtel, was a breakthrough for Mr. Musk, whose businesses have tried for years to gain access to India.Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, Starlink\u2019s parent company, said in a statement accompanying Jio\u2019s announcement that she looked forward to \u201creceiving authorization from the government of India to provide more people, organizations and businesses with access to Starlink\u2019s high-speed internet services.\u201d Airtel noted that its partnership would be \u201csubject to SpaceX receiving its own authorizations.\u201d With local partners, who hold the government\u2019s ear, Starlink\u2019s odds look stronger.As Mr. Musk stands side by side with President Trump, trying to aggressively shrink the government of the United States, his business dealings around the world have become even more prominent. In India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to placate Mr. Trump to avoid tariffs, Mr. Musk\u2019s long struggle to crack the market for his car company, Tesla, has attracted a lot of attention. But Starlink could be a bigger prize.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23879,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23880,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877\/revisions\/23880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}