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- Elon Musk posted critical tweets about the Indian government and Mukesh Ambani after Starlink faced pending permissions.
- India has kept Starlink's approval pending due to national security concerns, inspection requirements, and spectrum allocation issues.
- Jio and Bharti Airtel have applied to provide satellite internet services in India and have received most security checks and permissions.
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Namaste. Welcome to T5 Mauro, Nethra. Arrogant Elon Musk, even if he is the world's richest man or the ruler of a superpower that dictates to the world, he must bow down to India. When wanting to step into India, one
must strictly follow Indian laws and Indian rules and Indian rules. He must absolutely respect India sovereignty. Only such people, such entrepreneurs, even global billionaires will be granted permission in India. Otherwise, if they think of seeing
India just as a business hub and insulting India or its prime minister, they might not get the opportunity. You know Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX and the world's billionaire providing Starlink satellite net in 160 countries has been throwing criticisms and allegations at India and the Indian prime minister like
an opposition leader for the last two or three days. Because the Indian government is not giving permissions to his Starlink, he has become a politician and is making politically motivated criticisms and allegations. Let me explain Starlink or satellite internet in detail. First, it connects directly from a satellite to mobiles and our home Wi-Fi like connections and it is very
fast. If you set up a small antenna anywhere, be it in Hills, valleys, forests, or in the middle of the ocean, you will get high speed, hint, speed, internet. Yeeah! This is certainly good technology. Otherwise, if it towers a little far away, our mobile won't get a connection and the internet cuts off. But with this satellite internet, no matter where you are, forests or oceans, if you set up a
small antenna, you get high quality internet. We must definitely embrace this, but just like Starlink, Geo and Bharti Airtel have also applied to the Indian government to provide this satellite internet and while they received most permissions, it got stuck at security, clearances, and spectrum
allocation. All these have been pending for the last four years. Everything is at almost the same stage, but Geo and Bharti Airtel have almost received security checks and permissions. While Elon Musk's Starlink has not, why hasn't it? Why hasn't it? Because for him to enter India and start satellite services, he must resolve all our security concerns. We must be
convinced that Starlink poses no threat to India through our inspection, so only if you agree to all, that ensuring there is no threat to our national security, will we grant permissions which is why it is pending the, which is why it is pending. This is the reason for Elon Musk's anger.
Recently, Starlink, Bharti Airtel and Geo had a meeting in which Geo and Bharti Airtel announced we have applied to the Indian government to provide internet. Via our own satellites, we are going to launch our own satellites and if the Indian government gives permission, Geo, we have 165 satellites already ready to provide low cost satellite internet
services to the 140 crore Indians soon. Elon Musk already has satellites up there, out of about 15,000 satellites in orbit, almost 10,000 to 11,000 belong to Elon Musk. He is already providing satellite internet services in 165 countries. So that is why he says we are ready, all our satellites are ready, they don't have their satellites ready yet, so why not give it to us? Why not give it to us? But just like India, China did not
allow Starlink internet services into their country. Russia did not allow. Elon Musk either. India is on the same path but India is actually ready to grant permission. But Elon Musk is not ready to face India's security checks. That is why, venting his frustration, he says that while he provides services in 160 countries in India, a few people have a monopoly over communication and in internet services. He first tweeted saying that Ambani
is the one who is the boss of this country. Neither reliance nor Ambani responded significantly to this. When reporters asked Ambani's son Akash Ambani, he brushed it aside and did not respond to it and did not respond to it. However, Rahul Gandhi responded. He responded by saying, welcome to India. Elon, wait until you discover the other guy indirectly telling him to name Adani as well. Though I don't understand why he was so happy.
Adani is in many other sectors but Adani is not in these communication and internet services. Rahul Gandhi claimed this is only a war related to internet services. After that, he didn't stop and posted a few more things.
When he said Dear Prime Minister Ambani, who is our actual Prime Minister? Narendra Modi. Dear Prime Minister Ambani, please accept my humble apology for not realizing that you are the real boss of India. Sorry, you are the real boss. I could not recognize you Prime Minister Ambani.
Many here are furious at Elon Musk for this because whether he is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party or the Congress Party is a different matter. Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India and that Prime Minister's office must be respected. The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who represents 1.4 billion people must be respected by saying Dear Prime Minister Ambani, Elon Musk, directly implied that Mukesh Ambani is the
Prime Minister of this country. This is certainly an insult to the nation's sovereignty and a belittlement of it and there is no need for Rahul Gandhi to be happy about it either. He insulted a nation's Prime Minister, the nation's sovereignty and its democracy. How can one support such a person? Yeah.
Elon Musk says he will provide internet and satellite services at a lower cost than them, them. The internet we currently use, whether on mobile or at home, also comes from satellites. But it comes through satellites, two antennas and towers, towers involve cables, wires and all that. But Starlink, the satellite service, does not have those. Just set up an antenna and it comes directly to your house from the satellite. But that is
why it is fast. What is he saying? He says that rural areas in India still do not have internet. Many are still far from it and if he is allowed into India, he will provide satellite internet at a low cost. Currently, the internet and satellite services we use in India are among the cheapest in the world. There are criticisms, allegations and social media trolls against Geo. There are some against Airtel too, but let's set that aside for a moment. But India provides the most affordable internet and
mobiles services in the world and Elon Musk claims he will provide even cheaper services, even in rural areas of India. To set up an antenna on your roof, it costs 34,000 rupees. Whereas setting up Wi-Fi, what do they cost about 2000 rupees? When a rural area will spend 34,000 to buy it, who will install an antenna? He says he will provide it at a low cost, but even if he reduces the price,
maybe to 25,000 or 20,000, who will install it? People in rural areas can't even afford 2000 for Wi-Fi and he expects them to spend 34,000 for satellite internet. Plus a monthly subscription fee of 8,000 rupees. The starting price in America is about 40,000 rupees in Indian currency for low-speed internet. If you want something decent, you have to pay 8,000 to 10,000, it's even more expensive. On top of that paying 8,000 every month,
who would spend 34,000 on an antenna? This is what Elon Musk says. If Geo and Airtel enter, they will definitely offer it at a lower price than that. At most of Starlink comes to India, only the wealthy classes will use it. There is no way for the common man to afford it. He is telling lies about satellite internet and you can't even trust Elon Musk. Now let's look at the security concerns India is raising and wait exactly. They have expressed doubts. During the
Israel-Ukraine war, there were some internet blackouts. Internet services are sometimes suspended on government orders during protests or other situations to keep people from knowing what is happening outside and to maintain control. Our man, however, turned it off and on whenever he felt like it. But Elon Musk has an arrogant attitude as if he has a monopoly thinking it is in my hands and I do as I please. He believes that as the richest man in the world,
every country and every prime minister must listen to him and he can enter any country he wants. Currently, Starlink internet services are banned in Iran as well. But many people there managed to bring them in through the back door and use them.
There are allegations that Starlink was involved in the targeting and killing of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Supreme Leader, by pinpointing his location for the air strike. Similarly, in 2024, when raids were conducted on drug rings in the Andaman and Nicovar Islands, Starlink devices were found during the investigation. They were also found during military operations in Manipur. Eh? That is why India is suspicious.
It's not wrong, is it? Look at America. How much valued does it place on its national security? It completely bans communication and network equipment from China and Russia. Russia. They feared that if network equipment is sold there it could be used for hacking.
If your country needs that much security, we also follow our own security standards for our country. The data of 1.4 billion people is important to us. Our country and our data are important to us. If you answer our questions and comply with our regulations to get permission, is that? A monopoly is out of monopoly. Is the prime minister an ambani? Why is only your country great? Is our country not great? Is your national security important? Is our national security not important? Why is there so much talk about TikTok anyway? Why go that far? There are restrictions on TikTok, right? There are many restrictions
on this Chinese app. In America, government officials there and army personnel are not allowed to use TikTok at all. They are not even allowed to have the app on their mobiles. Why so then? So America has always been a friend to Pakistan. They are our friend in some matters but in others they are definitely an enemy. How many restrictions have they imposed on our visas and green cards now? Didn't JD Vance just hold
a press meet yesterday? The anger Trump has toward Indians it seems like Musk has the same. They were once friends. So you cannot trust America much during the 1999 Kargil war when they entered our Himalayas. We relied on GPS because it is under American control and we wanted to use that GPS to bomb their bases using our jets. You can see a series on
this called Operation Safe Sagar. Look at America's duplicity and how malicious they are toward India. You can see it there. You can see it there. We wanted to bomb those terrorist bases using GPS but America tampered with the GPS. We fixed our target using GPS and dropped the bomb correctly but they changed it and the bomb landed 200 300 meters away. We
hit it correctly as it was shown to us but they tampered with it because of this many of our soldiers lost their lives. The Indian army and air force realized later that America had tampered with it and after that they set the correct targets and achieved victory.