Elon Musk responds to cryptic meme featuring Mukesh Ambani over satellite spectrum allocation

Both Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani’s companies were at loggerheads over the allocation of satellite broadband spectrum. Reliance Jio got backing of Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel who also pitched for auction, but Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia cleared that it will be done administratively not through auction.

As the Centre cleared its stance that allocation of satellite spectrum would be done administratively, not via auction, Starlink CEO Elon Musk responded to a meme featuring Reliance Jio’s Mukesh Ambani.

Both Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani’s companies were at loggerheads over the allocation of satellite broadband spectrum. Reliance Jio got backing of Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel who also pitched for auction, but Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia cleared that it will be done administratively not through auction.

Elon Musk replied to a user on X who shared a meme asking if Mukesh Ambani is afraid of entering Starlink as a service provider in India. Musk wrote on X, “I will call and ask if it would not be too much trouble to allow Starlink to compete to provide Internet services to the people of India.”

Elon Musk wanted to go with global trends and reasoned why he wants administrative allocation. He took to X and wrote that the decision of auction ‘would be unprecedented.’ “That would be unprecedented, as this spectrum was long designated by the ITU as shared spectrum for satellites,” He wrote on X.

While responding to a question during a press conference, union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Tuesday, “ The Telecom Act 2023 which was passed last year in the month of December has very categorically placed this in Schedule 1 which means the allocation will be done administratively.”