{"id":960168,"date":"2025-09-09T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960168"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:26:19","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-buys-17-billion-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/elon-musks-spacex-buys-17-billion-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX buys $17 billion spectrum licenses from EchoStar. Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX said Monday it will buy wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, the latest major deal crucial for 5G connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The companies also agreed to a deal that will enable EchoStar&#8217;s Boost Mobile subscribers to access Starlink direct-to-cell service to extend satellite service to areas without service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX said Monday it will buy wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, the latest major deal crucial for 5G connectivity. The companies also agreed to a deal that will enable EchoStar&#8217;s Boost Mobile subscribers to access Starlink direct-to-cell service to extend satellite service to areas without service.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960168","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=960168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}