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T-Mobile Shrugs Off Starlink
T-Mobile drew some firm lines this week, with outgoing CFO Peter Osvaldik taking shots at SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile—calling it no 5G threat due to physics and indoor coverage limits. Yet the tension is real: T-Mobile still has an exclusive device partnership with Starlink, while SpaceX has 650 direct-to-cell satellites in orbit and ambitions to use EchoStar spectrum with rooftop nodes to overcome those limitations. The big three carriers are countering with a proposed satellite joint venture to pool spectrum for rural coverage, aiming to fence Starlink out of the mainstream mobile market while…
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