Elon Musk says Starlink would help India's least served rural areas with internet access
- SpaceX founder Elon Musk on August 21 said Starlink would help India's least served rural areas with internet.
- Musk was responding to a post noting 11,256 of India's villages still had no 4G coverage as of May 2026.
- India had 1.093 billion internet subscriptions in March 2026, with only 440.87 million of them rural.
- Starlink has filed a fresh application in India after IN-SPACe rejected its earlier Gen 2 network application.
Source: moneycontrol.com
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