Austin, Oct. 11 -- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also heads satellite communications company Starlink, on Saturday (local time) further argued for Starlink's proposal for commercial operations in the Indian market, arguing that competition would give consumers more choices.

He also targeted the head of a leading Indian conglomerate, describing arguments against Starlink's entry as "absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole" and those defending the existing market as "an army of Internet shills."

In a fresh post on X, Musk said, "The ridiculous arguments by Ambani's army of Internet shills make no sense. On the one hand, they say Starlink couldn't possibly compete with the amazing low prices offered by Ambani's de facto monopoly in India and then, in t...