Who Holds the Off Switch

Tommy: Musk says oligarchs block Starlink in India. Dougie: sweet, I'll be an oligarch. Scarf: he named Ambani; Jio's building satellites. Abe: who decides who gets online there? Mayor: the oligarchs. Abe: the government! Police cut mobile data for two and a half miles. Tommy: whoever holds the off switch wins. Dougie: then I'm buying the switch.

Elon Musk says Starlink is being kept out of India by 'certain oligarchs', naming Mukesh Ambani, whose Jio network is developing its own satellite system; but the bigger obstacle may be the Indian government's habit of switching the internet off, as when police cut mobile data across a 2.5-mile radius of central New Delhi before a protest.

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