{"id":1002881,"date":"2026-04-15T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002881"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:59:01","slug":"amazon-signs-11-57-billion-deal-for-satellite-firm-globalstar-to-challenge-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/amazon-signs-11-57-billion-deal-for-satellite-firm-globalstar-to-challenge-musks-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon signs $11.57 billion deal for satellite firm Globalstar to challenge Musk&#8217;s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com said on Tuesday it will acquire Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, bolstering its fledgling satellite business as it tries to catch up with Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink. <\/p>\n<p>Tech companies are pouring billions of dollars into capturing the lucrative market for satellite-based connectivity, but it will be a tall order to match Starlink&#8217;s 10,000-unit-strong network. Through the deal, Amazon adds Globalstar&#8217;s two dozen satellites to its existing network of more than 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com said on Tuesday it will acquire Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, bolstering its fledgling satellite business as it tries to catch up with Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink. Tech companies are pouring billions of dollars into capturing the lucrative market for satellite-based connectivity, but it will be a tall order to match Starlink&#8217;s 10,000-unit-strong network. Through the deal, Amazon adds Globalstar&#8217;s two dozen satellites to its existing network of more than 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}