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2026-10-08 · Aljazeera

India defends satellite internet approval process after Elon Musk jab

India has refuted billionaire Elon Musk’s claim that “certain oligarchs” are blocking the launch of his Starlink satellite communication services in the country. Musk said in an X post on Wednesday that Starlink was being blocked so that unnamed individuals can “maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people”, adding that it was a “crime against the people of India”. But India’s Ministry of Communications defended its satellite internet approval process as being fair and non-discriminatory in a statement on Thursday. “The suggestion that the framework or its application is unfair or discriminatory is baseless and misconceived,” the ministry said without naming Starlink or Musk.

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