{"id":1034027,"date":"2026-09-09T07:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034027"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:20:40","slug":"europes-biggest-mobile-operators-in-talks-for-satellite-to-mobile-venture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/europes-biggest-mobile-operators-in-talks-for-satellite-to-mobile-venture-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s biggest mobile operators in talks for satellite-to-mobile venture: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone Group and Telefonica are in early talks to create a consortium to bid on European Union satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile services, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the \u200cmatter. <\/p>\n<p>The group \u2060would \u2060jointly bid for a share of 2 gigahertz airwaves that \u200bthe EU has proposed reserving for a local operator, a \u200bplan aimed at increasing sovereign satellite capabilities, the report added. <\/p>\n<p>No final decisions on the consortium or \u200bplans to bid have been \u2060made, Bloomberg \u200csaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone Group and Telefonica are in early talks to create a consortium to bid on European Union satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile services, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the \u200cmatter. The group \u2060would \u2060jointly bid for a share of 2 gigahertz airwaves that \u200bthe EU has proposed reserving for a local operator, a \u200bplan aimed at increasing sovereign satellite capabilities, the report added. No final decisions on the consortium or \u200bplans to bid have been \u2060made, Bloomberg \u200csaid.<\/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-1034027","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\/1034027","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=1034027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034039,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034027\/revisions\/1034039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}