{"id":1045569,"date":"2026-10-29T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045569"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:10:21","slug":"us-agency-approves-amazon-leos-11-5-billion-acquisition-of-globalstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/29\/us-agency-approves-amazon-leos-11-5-billion-acquisition-of-globalstar\/","title":{"rendered":"US agency approves Amazon Leo&#8217;s $11.5 billion acquisition of Globalstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it has approved Amazon Leo&#8217;s $11.5 billion deal to acquire Globalstar as the retail giant&#8217;s satellite arm aims to build a satellite-based communications network to take on Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX Starlink unit.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Leo has launched more than 300 satellites since April 2025 and aims to deploy about 3,200 satellites in Earth&#8217;s low orbit by 2029. Through the deal, Amazon adds Globalstar&#8217;s two dozen satellites to its existing network of more than 200 and its mobile-satellite spectrum. Amazon, which has committed to investing more than $10 billion in Leo, is preparing to roll out its commercial satellite services by the end of 2026, the FCC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it has approved Amazon Leo&#8217;s $11.5 billion deal to acquire Globalstar as the retail giant&#8217;s satellite arm aims to build a satellite-based communications network to take on Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX Starlink unit. Amazon Leo has launched more than 300 satellites since April 2025 and aims to deploy about 3,200 satellites in Earth&#8217;s low orbit by 2029. Through the deal, Amazon adds Globalstar&#8217;s two dozen satellites to its existing network of more than 200 and its mobile-satellite spectrum. Amazon, which has committed to investing more than $10 billion in Leo, is preparing to roll out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045569","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045576,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045569\/revisions\/1045576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}