Musk has been eyeing neighbouring India – a country of 1.4bn people – for a while, with a deal reportedly in talks.
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has been granted a licence to operate in Sri Lanka after the South Asian nation passed a new telecommunications bill last month.
Starlink, which is part of Musk’s private space-tech company SpaceX, provides high-speed internet to remote parts of the world via low Earth orbit satellites, which usually operate at altitudes of up to 2,000km from the Earth’s surface and can provide…