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SpaceX’s ambitious, expensive gamble to replace AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Global Published 17 October 2026, 19:00 · archived 17 Oct 2026

Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, SpaceX agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum to expand the Starlink network, spectrum that’s been traded around the telecom business […]

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