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Satellite networks that connect standard mobile phones, devices and machines without specialised terminals.
FCC commissioners will vote Oct. 29 on auctioning 25MHz for satellite-to-phone service and on taking comment on 482MHz more. A clearing price would test the roughly $302 million a megahertz SpaceX paid EchoStar, by Reuters' figures.
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T-Mobile cut "with Starlink" from its T-Satellite homepage in the week it, AT&T and Verizon launched a joint venture to pool satellite spectrum. The satellites behind the service are still SpaceX's, under a US exclusivity T-Mobile's CEO says lasts beyond this year.
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Bloomberg reports Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica are in early talks about one bid for the European third of the 2 GHz band, a licence that changes hands well before any EU constellation can carry phone traffic.
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Gulf space money is moving off government budget lines and onto corporate balance sheets, where Space42's venture with Viasat now sits. KPMG's projection to 2034 is for slower growth than the decade behind it.
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Elveo Mobile starts life with five satellites in orbit and globally coordinated spectrum. In direct-to-device, the second asset is the harder one to replace.
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