After Airtel, Jio ties up with Musk’s Starlink

A day after Bharti Airtel inked a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink’s satellite Internet services to India, Jio Platforms followed suit, signalling a strategic shift in the satcom landscape. With both major telecom players — each having their own satellite ventures — now collaborating with a firm once considered a formidable rival, the long-standing regulatory tussle over spectrum allocation appears to be over.