{"id":16732,"date":"2025-09-11T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16732\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:34:04","slug":"17-billion-for-phone-to-satellite-direct-connection-spacex-acquires-echostar-frequencies-to-bypass-all-cell-tower-infrastructure-rude-baguette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16732\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;$17 Billion for Phone-to-Satellite Direct Connection&quot;: SpaceX Acquires EchoStar Frequencies to Bypass All Cell Tower Infrastructure &#8211; Rude Baguette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_gFBVV95cUxOb2NQNVE2anU1RHhiZ2RyckNYaU9KY200MmhycUhZd2czR1JxREFrMFBPY2RhLUlSWmxkQ0RyTjZYR0Z0Z2lMeTR5Zl91aDZJeDMyVWY2aVVTbXVjQTVFSTNFM05lNFFqN1dFa3poQkNBNDVIWFh5Z0t1ak5sYXJZV3l2MGFZTVJoMUdKakJSejFOc0F1ZVVQYmVNQXZLVy1ZU05lQlh4SFVqazNHNmFldkVhRWFieUIzQzRzWXp5MDR6VGJDcUNNdERlRFlEMllnZlM4NUxsMWtXZHdYUEpiVVVlaS1nbE5FRHdmWU1ZdVdsMllmSHE4bDdLc3RQQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;$17 Billion for Phone-to-Satellite Direct Connection&#8221;: SpaceX Acquires EchoStar Frequencies to Bypass All Cell Tower Infrastructure<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Rude Baguette<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxQOG1Tc0pfdldfSTVFRXczTVlTVzZBZVEtTXBOY0NFcGtuTUptbEhERG80cUhJMEZvU3pfa2JDM2Q2Nk1CeFRpT01nbzlMd1FSd0FBb1kybWtlTGlSU3dCWTdmSm81RjFIMi1BbnlsdWhTVUR6Y0RHZzFqRTAtLXg4RG1JVldmczZCU1VYcmNidE1CTDFWZkItaU91VnZ6WDAxYlc3STVTaWtyQzdtU3Nabk40LUFfMXhmc1JGNE5oYjQwWE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EchoStar Announces Spectrum Sale and Commercial Agreement with SpaceX<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;PR Newswire<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNYXFpd3hkV1o0bHF1MU80YzNMTVdqc2NmU1pCdnZvTFYwTlc0MFNEYkJpNFVvdi1YSk1JQ2x4M3VDeUd0dWZaT3BSem9oU1EzZGhLWGo0WnNtN0RLUGtSVWNsWXpwSUNZLUlzZ1REY1ZvRS1mdGQ0M1lYSFc2RUF3OEF3U04tLXVwZUJITllxa2ZmZWE4TFJmRw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elon Musk elaborates on those satellite-to-cell phone plans<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fierce Network<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxOUlVxTGpJRmpqd0tYb2pmaEdiV3dSaTRvbHA1clducFIycWs5ODltYk9GaTRuNnlOTURZQko3cm5JNENULXY5dEhnR29BT0MtaVQtb1NXZ01XYzgtNW45bGZrQ2xkZlF6cEVjb3dqS0hmMUJGcmZEa3g2N3NxT2hRSGdhNkVHYTFTYlZ6QUNlRHFkOHBoSHJSQUdzSUF4QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is the $10 &#8216;unlimited&#8217; Starlink Global Mobile plan coming soon?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mobile Industry Review<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxORGltM04taUk0RkdtMDBZSUJvTWNjdTd6UWdhVW5WanR0bVZLUkRRLXdpQ1Boamx5V3RBRldxQUR5OXJUUUNVdFRTNnNFdEhfUHNTdnhQWW9SZERhWXI1VDZaQ0dsQUExYy1FaHJYVkNEZ2NrWjZfVENpOVRrQ0hydnZDRmdjcFc5TG5BcEVTbjFYRktPUVh1MlVqTVBfY1p6akRiQVdpRTU3VHd1U2NTNFNIbw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;$17 Billion for Phone-to-Satellite Direct Connection&#8221;: SpaceX Acquires EchoStar Frequencies to Bypass All Cell Tower Infrastructure&nbsp;&nbsp;Rude BaguetteEchoStar Announces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}