Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports on Starlink signing India, demonstrating that the Musk enterprises distinguish themselves by making profit. More.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, move those routers there. Oh, hey, it's me. Your data center. And as you can hear, I'm making some big changes in here because AI is making some bigger ones everywhere. So I took a little trip to Nokia. Super fast routers, optical interconnect, fully automated. The whole data center networking portfolio, and they deliver. That's them. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, Nokia, right on time. Get your data center AI ready. Someday is here with Nokia. |
| 0:30.7 | This is John Batchel, conversation with Bob Zimmerman, my colleague watching Starlink and India. |
| 0:40.8 | A very, very big deal for Starlink. However, |
| 0:48.6 | underlining this, Starlink turned out to be the way SpaceX pays for its ambition to get to Mars. Starlink makes a great deal of money. Now we'll make more money through India. It's very popular. |
| 0:54.6 | Falkland signed on. India signs on. There's two extremes versions of the world. |
| 1:00.9 | There are competitors, one way of Bob names here, but the competitors are losing out. |
| 1:05.9 | I mention all this because Elon Musk, in addition to taking a lot of darts from the opposition |
| 1:12.7 | to the Trump administration's attempt to reduce the cost of government and do away with |
| 1:19.4 | the over supply of government workers in Washington, D.C. I can't get past the fact that nine of the 20 richest counties in the United |
| 1:31.3 | States are at D.C. suburbs as of 2019, who knows how rich they are today after the trillions that |
| 1:37.0 | were poured into America during the late Trump and Biden administration. In any event, Starlink makes money for Musk, |
| 1:47.9 | and Musk uses that to get to Mars, to test starship. The Tesla story is in one direction, |
| 1:55.5 | the Starlink where there's trouble about EVs, but there's no trouble about Starlink. |
| 2:01.1 | I recommend it highly to those of you who have difficulty picking up the internet or just as |
| 2:06.4 | a primary. |
| 2:07.3 | I got it as a backup, but it's my primary. |
| 2:10.5 | It's that good. |
| 2:12.9 | Here's Bob to describe Starlink and India. |
| 2:15.2 | More of this, than I. |
| 2:17.1 | India, two of India's biggest telecom companies that give, you know, |
| 2:21.8 | internet and phone service, has signed deals with SpaceX to provide Starlink to its customers. |
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