New Delhi, March 13 -- Hardly a day after Sunil Mitta' led Airtel announced partnership with Elon Musk's Strlink, rival Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms also struck a deal with SpaceX, the aerospace company led by Musk, to bring Starlink's broadband internet services to India. Interestingly few months ago both Mittal and Ambani were objecting on the allotment of Spectrum to Musk, considered the right-hand-man of US President Donald Trump without auction.
Over the past few months, rivals Jio and Airtel had come together to demand an auction for awarding spectrum for satellite services in India as they feared an administrative allocation would give Musk airwaves at a price lower than what they had paid via auctions in the past. This agreement "...