Spectrum allocation: Musk’s win over Ambani debunks 2G ‘scam’ case

It is significant that the Union government has backed Elon Musk’s internet arm Starlink and Amazon over Mukesh Ambani Reliance and Sunil Mittal’s Airtel by deciding to allot satellite spectrum administratively rather than take the auction route.

The decision is a tacit admission the ‘2G scam’ over a decade ago was a red herring, and the ‘presumptive loss’ of Rs 1.76 lakh crore alleged by CAG for not auctioning spectrum was at best creative imagination.