SpaceX

Satellite

SpaceX’s Starlink Gaining Urban Subs: Ookla

The company’s regional promotions earlier this year were successful, Ookla found

Satellite

Other Satellite Companies Not Excited About Rocket Lab-Iridium Deal

Rocket Lab and Iridium countered that concerns are unrelated to the $8 billion acquisition

Spectrum

SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile Like FCC’s Unlicensed D2D Plan

Current users of the bands being considered said the agency should take care to avoid interference

Satellite

KeyBanc: Starlink Faces Higher Churn Despite Subscriber Growth

KeyBanc's latest analysis points to questions about the sustainability of the satellite provider's customer growth

Satellite

SpaceX Targets Nov. 13 for Historic Starship Launch

The mission could have major implications for the future economics of satellite communications and commercial spaceflight

Earnings

AST SpaceMobile Pushing Back Near-Term Satellite Deployment Milestone

The company is planning to build its own rocket amid a shortage of launch space, something analysts are skeptical of

Data Center

SpaceXAI Started Southaven Data Center Construction Without Water Permits, Mississippi Alleges

SpaceXAI subsidiary began construction on a data center without necessary permits. The company is cooperating to resolve the issue

FCC

SpaceX Calls FCC High Cost Broadband Subsidies ‘Corporate Welfare’

SpaceX is challenging decades-old federal funding practices

Earnings

GCI Closing Quintillion Deal ‘Very Soon’

The company’s third quarter broadband losses improved year-over-year, and CEO Ron Duncan said he wasn’t worried about competition from SpaceX

Wireless

Dish Bankruptcy Mediation Extended Two Weeks

SpaceX rumors loomed during a Wednesday hearing

Wireless

SpaceX Planning ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Cell Sites for Starlink Mobile

The deployment would use Qualcomm gear and is set to start next year, the companies said

Satellite

AT&T, AST Complete First Handoff Between Terrestrial and Satellite Networks

AST stock was still down more than 11 percent Monday amid more news about SpaceX’s mobile ambitions

Wireless

SpaceX Reportedly in Talks to Buy or Partner with EchoStar’s Boost Mobile

Analysts were skeptical that Boost’s MVNO agreements were transferable

Spectrum

FCC Clears Slate of Spectrum Items, Including Proposal to Expand Direct-to-Device

The agency didn’t act on a request from SpaceX to consider satellite service in spectrum targeted by the NextNav petition

Satellite

Debate About Nationalizing Starlink Beginning to Bubble Up, From Left and Right

Critics, including some Republican lawmakers, say SpaceX’s growing power raises national security concerns

Earnings

There’s a New Wildcard Haunting Telecom Earnings: Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Even AT&T’s 769,000 internet additions didn’t help, as investors are weighing satellite expansion against carriers’ pricing and bundling advantages