After Jeff Bezos in e-commerce, Elon Musk to compete with Mukesh Ambani in providing cheap Internet

World’s richest man and visionary entrepreneur, Elon Musk has finally decided to enter the Indian market but not with the long-awaited Tesla cars but with his latest plan to cover the Earth with satellites that provide cheap and very fast Internet to the remotest areas of the Earth from the scorching Sahara desert to the trembling tops of the Himalayas. The project is called Starlink and is one of SpaceX’s most ambitious projects. The others being inhabiting Mars and placing a Dogecoin on the Moon. SpaceX has registered a company with the name Starlink Satellite Communications Private Limited with goals of providing ultra-fast and cheap broadband to the rural parts of India without traditional towers but through innumerable satellites. Once active, the prices of the internet will be directly competing against Reliance Jio’s $0.68 per GB. Even in Broadband services, both Airtel and Jio’s monthly plans start with as low as $6.7 and a refundable installation fee of $20, while Starlink’s plans in the USA are $600 for installation and $120 monthly charges. In satellite internet services, Starlink is competing against Amazon’s Kuiper and Airtel co-owned OneWeb, both of which are much behind in the race. OneWeb has a few dozen satellites, while Kuiper plans its first satellite in late 2022.