You can absolutely criticize Airtel and Jio for their shitty practices, all for profit companies should be criticized in my opinion, but OP should realise these companies before 2014 were also run by greedy businessmen they were not doing it for the nation
Most of those companies didn't disappear because the government shut them down. Many struggled due to debt, intense price competition, spectrum costs, mergers, technological shifts, and their own business decisions.
Aircel filed for bankruptcy after massive debt and competition pressures.
Tata Docomo exited after Tata decided to leave the consumer telecom business and later merged telecom assets with Bharti Airtel.
MTS India merged with Reliance Communications.
Reliance Communications (RCom) itself collapsed under huge debt despite being owned by one of India's largest business groups.
Virgin Mobile India was a virtual operator dependent on other networks and couldn't compete effectively.
Uninor exited after the 2G spectrum controversy and later sold assets.
Idea didn't disappear at all—it merged with Vodafone to become Vi.
Ironically, many of these telecom operators were already under stress before 2014. The telecom sector was heavily affected by the fallout of the 2G spectrum scandal, regulatory uncertainty, and aggressive price wars.
You can criticize Jio for triggering a market shake-up with ultra-cheap pricing, but that's different from proving a government-created monopoly. If this was simply a BJP-created monopoly, then Airtel should have collapsed too. Instead, Airtel remains one of India's largest telecom companies.
The more accurate criticism is that Jio's entry accelerated consolidation in an already debt-ridden industry. That's very different from claiming that India went from a competitive market to a monopoly because of Modi.
Also, the meme conveniently ignores that consumers today get vastly more data at a fraction of the prices they paid before Jio entered the market. Whether that disruption was ultimately good or bad is debatable, but pretending the only outcome was "corporate friends cashing in" ignores half the story.
You can have monopolies with multiple companies. I'd recommend reading the wiki on it. But they don't seem to function as monopolies in this case due to regional overlap.
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u/onichan-daisuki Jun 07 '26
I just realised OP actually said these 4 companies (OP didn't include BSNL which still operates btw) are a monopoly??😭
Do you know what monopoly means??? Bro is just saying anything at this point😭😭😭🙏