{"id":3680,"date":"2026-10-09T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/spacex-announces-plan-to-become-a-major-mobile-carrier\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:23:31","slug":"spacex-announces-plan-to-become-a-major-mobile-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/spacex-announces-plan-to-become-a-major-mobile-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX announces plan to become a \u2018major mobile carrier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of rocket launch with SpaceX logo.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/STKB355_SPACEX_C.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses &#8211; a move the company says \u00ab\u00a0will pave the way\u00a0\u00bb for its Starlink Mobile service to become a \u00ab\u00a0major\u00a0\u00bb US carrier. When the Federal Communications Commission signs off on the deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates#starlink-mobile-spectrum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX says it will<\/a> deploy its new architecture that combines its satellite-to-mobile constellation with a terrestrial mobile network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/975480\/spacex-mobile-terrestrial-cellphone-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directly competing<\/a> with T-Mobile, AT&amp;T, and Verizon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The licenses include up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band, which SpaceX says will allow Starlink Mobile&rsquo;s signal to penetrate through walls and buildings. SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/773645\/echostar-dish-spacex-starlink-direct-to-cell-fcc-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously acquired 2GHz spectrum from  \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/1008467\/spacex-announces-plan-to-become-a-major-mobile-carrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses &#8211; a move the company says \u00ab\u00a0will pave the way\u00a0\u00bb for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}