{"id":1042700,"date":"2026-10-13T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042700"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:41:44","slug":"no-one-will-buy-starlink-if-too-expensive-in-india-spacex-will-need-to-make-price-affordable-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/no-one-will-buy-starlink-if-too-expensive-in-india-spacex-will-need-to-make-price-affordable-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"No one will buy Starlink if too expensive in India, SpaceX will need to make price affordable: Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech trillionaire Elon Musk has said Starlink&#8217;s pricing in India would have to be made affordable, since no one would buy it if it were too expensive, and argued that competition would give consumers more choice. <\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s comments on X, part of a larger post, come as Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries, counts down to what is expected to be India&#8217;s biggest public offering. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani&#8217;s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business,&#8221; Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech trillionaire Elon Musk has said Starlink&#8217;s pricing in India would have to be made affordable, since no one would buy it if it were too expensive, and argued that competition would give consumers more choice. Musk&#8217;s comments on X, part of a larger post, come as Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries, counts down to what is expected to be India&#8217;s biggest public offering. &#8220;The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani&#8217;s profits will be lower, but he is not going out [&hellip;]<\/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-1042700","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\/1042700","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=1042700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042719,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042700\/revisions\/1042719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}