{"id":1044303,"date":"2026-10-17T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044303"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:29:34","slug":"analysis-spacexs-spectrum-deal-still-leaves-it-far-from-rivaling-telecom-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/analysis-spacexs-spectrum-deal-still-leaves-it-far-from-rivaling-telecom-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: SpaceX&#8217;s spectrum deal still leaves it far from rivaling telecom giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX called its recent multibillion-dollar purchase of US airwaves a critical step towards building a mobile network, but constructing a true rival to major American carriers will require a terrestrial network and likely years of work and billions more. <\/p>\n<p>Starlink became a money maker by offering internet service in rural and sparsely populated areas, where it faced little competition, as well as changing to easy-to-set-up home packages at a competitive price. Mobile will be harder. <\/p>\n<p>Cities are particularly tough places for mobile telephony and are technologically challenging for mobile-to-satellite connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX called its recent multibillion-dollar purchase of US airwaves a critical step towards building a mobile network, but constructing a true rival to major American carriers will require a terrestrial network and likely years of work and billions more. Starlink became a money maker by offering internet service in rural and sparsely populated areas, where it faced little competition, as well as changing to easy-to-set-up home packages at a competitive price. Mobile will be harder. Cities are particularly tough places for mobile telephony and are technologically challenging for mobile-to-satellite connections.<\/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-1044303","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\/1044303","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=1044303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044304,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044303\/revisions\/1044304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}