{"id":960588,"date":"2025-09-10T10:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960588"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:54:56","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-spends-17-billion-to-acquire-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/elon-musks-spacex-spends-17-billion-to-acquire-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX spends $17 billion to acquire spectrum licenses from EchoStar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has reached a deal worth about USD 17 billion with EchoStar for spectrum licenses that it will use to beef up its Starlink satellite network. <\/p>\n<p>The deal for EchoStar&#8217;s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses includes up to USD 8.5 billion in cash and up to USD 8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will make approximately USD 2 billion in cash interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has reached a deal worth about USD 17 billion with EchoStar for spectrum licenses that it will use to beef up its Starlink satellite network. The deal for EchoStar&#8217;s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses includes up to USD 8.5 billion in cash and up to USD 8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will make approximately USD 2 billion in cash interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960588","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=960588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}