{"id":1003109,"date":"2026-04-15T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003109"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:23:37","slug":"amazon-is-buying-satellite-giant-globalstar-in-a-deal-that-analysts-said-is-complicated-due-to-apples-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/amazon-is-buying-satellite-giant-globalstar-in-a-deal-that-analysts-said-is-complicated-due-to-apples-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is buying satellite giant Globalstar in a deal that analysts said is complicated due to Apple&#8217;s stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has announced that it is acquiring satellite company Globalstar for $11.57 billion. This move by the e-commerce giant comes as part of its plans to expand its Amazon Leo satellite internet service, enabling direct connectivity to consumer devices. This deal will also bring Apple into the arrangement, with the iPhone maker set to source satellite services for its iPhone and Apple Watch lineup from Amazon Leo following the acquisition. The move comes after weeks of negotiations among Amazon, Globalstar, and Apple and is expected to support broader connectivity offerings while reshaping existing partnerships in the satellite communications space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has announced that it is acquiring satellite company Globalstar for $11.57 billion. This move by the e-commerce giant comes as part of its plans to expand its Amazon Leo satellite internet service, enabling direct connectivity to consumer devices. This deal will also bring Apple into the arrangement, with the iPhone maker set to source satellite services for its iPhone and Apple Watch lineup from Amazon Leo following the acquisition. The move comes after weeks of negotiations among Amazon, Globalstar, and Apple and is expected to support broader connectivity offerings while reshaping existing partnerships in the satellite communications space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003109","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}