Reliance Industries has officially responded to the ongoing friction regarding the Indian satellite internet market, signaling that it is open to competition from Elon Musk’s Starlink. This statement marks the company’s first public engagement following a series of criticisms from Musk, who has alleged that both the Indian government and Reliance have been obstructing his company’s entry into a massive market with over a billion potential users. With Reliance's Jio Platforms currently preparing for a monumental $108 billion IPO, the timing of this public clarification is particularly significant.

The conglomerate sought to set the record straight without explicitly naming the SpaceX founder, emphasizing that it views the satellite sector through a lens of fair market participation. While Musk has frequently accused Reliance—the country's largest mobile operator with a subscriber base exceeding 530 million—of leveraging its influence to keep Starlink at bay, the company countered by noting that its own satellite projects are currently pending regulatory approvals. By highlighting that its own services are also caught in the administrative pipeline, Reliance aims to shift the narrative away from claims of corporate sabotage and toward standard regulatory processes.