India, Oct. 9 -- World's richest businessman Elon Musk sharpened a public quarrel over satellite internet on Thursday by asking whether one of India's richest men decides who gets a licence. "Starlink is licenced in over 165 countries and has spent five years complying with every single law and requirement of the Government of India, so why still no licence? Is Ambani the real boss of India?" he wrote on X, replying to a post that accused the Government of protecting crony capitalists.

The line landed while the India Mobile Congress was underway in the Capital and the telecom ministry was still responding to an earlier accusation. On Wednesday, Musk had said Starlink was "being blocked by certain oligarchs to maintain their monopolistic ...