When Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio stormed into India\u2019s telecom market a decade ago, it rewrote the rules of competition, forced consolidation and permanently altered the economics of the industry. Elon Musk’s Starlink is being seen as a future threat to American telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon. <\/p>\n
To be sure, unlike Reliance Jio, Starlink is not poised to disrupt the market through rock-bottom prices. In fact, Starlink often costs more than conventional broadband offerings in the United States. Yet analysts increasingly believe that in future Musk could trigger a major disruption by changing how connectivity is delivered, who controls it and where telecom profits are generated, radically altering the American telecom industry like Jio did in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio stormed into India\u2019s telecom market a decade ago, it rewrote the rules of competition, forced consolidation and permanently altered the economics of the industry. Elon Musk’s Starlink is being seen as a future threat to American telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon. To be sure, unlike Reliance Jio, Starlink is not poised to disrupt the market through rock-bottom prices. In fact, Starlink often costs more than conventional broadband offerings in the United States. Yet analysts increasingly believe that in future Musk could trigger a major disruption by changing how connectivity is delivered, who controls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012684,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012665\/revisions\/1012684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}