{"id":1042503,"date":"2026-10-12T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042503"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:53:24","slug":"absurd-hypocrisy-elon-musk-hits-out-at-ambanis-online-supporters-in-fresh-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/absurd-hypocrisy-elon-musk-hits-out-at-ambanis-online-supporters-in-fresh-jibe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absurd hypocrisy&#8217;: Elon Musk hits out at Ambani&#8217;s online supporters in fresh jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk on Sunday renewed his attack on Mukesh Ambani over Starlink&#8217;s entry into India, accusing the billionaire&#8217;s supporters of indulging in &#8220;absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole&#8221; in arguing simultaneously that his satellite internet service cannot compete with &#8220;amazing low prices offered by Ambani&#8217;s de facto monopoly in India&#8221;, even as they claimed &#8211; in the same breath &#8211; that it poses a strong competitive threat. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Musk said competition from Starlink would benefit ordinary Indians by expanding consumer choice and that while it could lower Ambani&#8217;s profits, &#8220;he is not going out of business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk on Sunday renewed his attack on Mukesh Ambani over Starlink&#8217;s entry into India, accusing the billionaire&#8217;s supporters of indulging in &#8220;absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole&#8221; in arguing simultaneously that his satellite internet service cannot compete with &#8220;amazing low prices offered by Ambani&#8217;s de facto monopoly in India&#8221;, even as they claimed &#8211; in the same breath &#8211; that it poses a strong competitive threat. In a post on X, Musk said competition from Starlink would benefit ordinary Indians by expanding consumer choice and that while it could lower Ambani&#8217;s profits, &#8220;he is not going out of business.&#8221;<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042503","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=1042503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042513,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042503\/revisions\/1042513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}