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AT&T-EchoStar spectrum deal tests U.S. regulatory resolve
08 Sep 2025 20:23 GMT
AT&T’s plan to acquire spectrum from EchoStar is reigniting debate about the U.S. mobile market’s competitiveness — and few voices are as sharp on the subject as Peter Adderton, founder of MobileX and Boost Mobile’s original architect. In an interview …
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T-Mobile T-Life App Rollout Sparks Employee Backlash Over Glitches and Quotas
06 Sep 2025 00:05 GMT
In the competitive world of telecommunications, T-Mobile’s push to consolidate its digital services under the T-Life app has sparked significant internal backlash, particularly among frontline employees who are bearing the brunt of customer frustrations …
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AT&T-EchoStar spectrum purchase
05 Sep 2025 07:15 GMT
The anticipated merger between AT&T and EchoStar still needs to clear regulatory hurdles but it is poised to significantly reshape the US telecommunications sector.
With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advocating for the arrangement, the …
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SpaceX Gains 50 MHz S-band, Paving Way for Satellite-Grade 5G
08 Sep 2025 16:40 GMT
S-band spectrum delivers better propagation, enabling direct links to unmodified LTE/5G smartphones
SpaceX struck a $17 billion agreement with EchoStar to acquire its U.S. AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses, along with global MSS rights, enabling the …
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EchoStar sells spectrum licenses to SpaceX in $17 billion deal to resolve FCC probe
08 Sep 2025 12:24 GMT
EchoStar on Monday agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, in a bid to allay regulatory concerns over its underutilization of assets for 5G service expansion.
The news sent shares of the …
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FCC ends investigation into EchoStar’s 5G build, spectrum use
09 Sep 2025 18:16 GMT
The closure of the FCC’s investigation ends a long, drawn-out process for EchoStar
The company blamed the FCC probe for creating a “dark cloud of uncertainty” over its business
Now EchoStar is set to collect more than $40 billion in two separate spectrum …
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Musk’s SpaceX to buy EchoStar’s wireless spectrum for $17bn
09 Sep 2025 04:58 GMT
SpaceX, the Elon Musk-backed company that owns the Starlink satellite internet network, agreed to acquire wireless spectrum from EchoStar Corp for about $17bn (€14.5bn), allowing Charlie Ergen’s beleaguered telecommunications company to resolve an …
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WSJ editors warn Trump just made Republicans look like 'crony capitalism kings'
09 Sep 2025 01:58 GMT
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board laid into President Donald Trump on Monday evening for his latest $17 billion effort to interfere in the telecommunications market.
"President Trump has now rescued Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar from …
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Musk’s SpaceX to buy EchoStar Spectrum for $17 billion
08 Sep 2025 17:58 GMT
(Bloomberg/Michelle F. Davis, Reshmi Basu, Kelcee Griffis and Dinesh Nair) — SpaceX, the Elon Musk-backed company that owns the Starlink satellite internet network, agreed to acquire wireless spectrum from EchoStar Corp. for about $17 billion, allowing …
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Spending $17B To Acquire Wireless Spectrum From Dish Network Parent EchoStar
08 Sep 2025 14:11 GMT
EchoStar has secured a financial lifeline from Elon Musk, whose SpaceX has agreed to pay $17 billion to acquire large amounts of its wireless spectrum.
The parent company of Dish Network has been transitioning to wireless over the past few years as the pay …