The State Holds the Switch

This week, Musk said oligarchs keep Starlink out of India. Aki: who? Bolt: Ambani, he says; Jio builds its own satellites. Yet police cut the city centre's mobile data. Lord Ozen: no gate stops me, I am the market! Aki: the state holds 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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