Musk vows ‘affordable’ Starlink in India as he escalates feud with Ambani马斯克承诺在印度推出“价格亲民”的星链服务，此举加剧了他与安巴尼之间的争端。
Pledge comes days before Mukesh Ambani’s low-cost Reliance Jio’s parent launches India’s largest-ever IPO.
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Elon Musk’s latest comments come days before Mukesh Ambani’s low-cost Reliance Jio’s parent launches India’s largest-ever initial public offering.
Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani. left, and Elon Musk, CEO of X, SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink [File: AP Photo]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has said he would price his Starlink satellite internet service affordably in India to take on Mukesh Ambani’s low-cost Reliance Jio, escalating his attacks on the rival tycoon days before Jio’s parent launches the country’s largest-ever initial public offering (IPO).
Jio Platforms, which owns the telecom arm, is targeting a valuation of $106bn in the offering. Much like SpaceX-owned Starlink, Jio’s satellite venture is also awaiting final security clearance to launch.
Cheap data is the playbook that built Jio in India, and the one Musk has used in markets like Kenya to unsettle local telecom players. SpaceX now plans to enter the mobile carrier market itself, starting in the United States.
Musk did not specify prices for India, where mobile data costs about rupees 7.74 ($0.08) per gigabyte, among the lowest in the world.
“Obviously, if Starlink is too expensive in India, no one will buy it, so SpaceX will need to make pricing affordable,” he said in a post on his social media platform X on Saturday.
“The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani’s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business,” Musk added.
‘Prime Minister Ambani’
Musk’s remarks were the latest in a series of X posts in which he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and Ambani of stalling Starlink’s entry into one of the world’s biggest internet markets to favour market leader Jio.
The posts have marked a sharp turn for Musk, who has long enjoyed a warm public rapport with Modi.
India’s government has denied any bias in its approval process, noting that the three satellite ventures seeking to launch, including Starlink’s and Jio’s, are all awaiting final security clearance.
Late on Friday, Musk taunted Ambani directly, addressing him as “Prime Minister Ambani” and asking whether he would “consider allowing Starlink to compete”.
Reliance has not responded to Musk’s remarks.
埃隆·马斯克发表最新评论的几天后，穆克什·安巴尼旗下的低成本电信公司 Reliance Jio 的母公司将推出印度有史以来规模最大的首次公开募股 (IPO)。
左为信实工业集团董事长兼总经理穆克什·安巴尼，右为X、SpaceX、特斯拉和星链首席执行官埃隆·马斯克。[图片：美联社照片]
亿万富翁企业家埃隆·马斯克表示，他将在印度以实惠的价格提供他的星链卫星互联网服务，以对抗穆克什·安巴尼的低成本Reliance Jio。就在Jio的母公司推出该国有史以来规模最大的首次公开募股（IPO）的前几天，马斯克加大了对这位竞争对手的攻击力度。
拥有电信业务的Jio Platforms公司此次IPO的目标估值为1060亿美元。与SpaceX旗下的星链（Starlink）类似，Jio的卫星项目也正在等待最终的安全许可才能发射。
廉价数据是印度Jio公司成功的制胜法宝，也是马斯克在肯尼亚等市场扰乱当地电信运营商的策略。如今，SpaceX计划进军移动运营商市场，首先从美国开始。
马斯克没有具体说明印度的定价，印度的移动数据价格约为每 GB 7.74 卢比（0.08 美元），是世界上最低的价格之一。
“显然，如果星链在印度的价格太贵，就不会有人购买，所以SpaceX需要降低价格，让消费者能够负担得起，”他周六在社交媒体平台X上发帖说。
“事实上，竞争会像以往一样，给印度普通民众带来更多选择，从而极大地惠及他们。安巴尼的利润会下降，但他不会破产，”马斯克补充道。
“安巴尼总理”
马斯克的这番言论是他一系列 X 帖子中的最新一篇，在这些帖子中，他指责印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的政府和安巴尼为了扶持市场领导者 Jio，而阻挠 Starlink 进入全球最大的互联网市场之一。
这些帖子标志着马斯克的态度发生了急剧转变，他此前一直与莫迪保持着良好的公开关系。
印度政府否认其审批过程中存在任何偏见，并指出包括 Starlink 和 Jio 在内的三家寻求发射卫星的企业都在等待最终的安全许可。
周五晚些时候，马斯克直接嘲讽安巴尼，称他为“安巴尼总理”，并询问他是否会“考虑允许星链参与竞争”。
信实集团尚未对马斯克的言论作出回应。