{"id":142120,"date":"2025-09-08T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142120\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:30:07","slug":"echostar-offloads-satellite-spectrum-to-spacex-for-17-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142120\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.echostar.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/echostar-announces-spectrum-sale-and-commercial-agreement-spacex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the companies<\/a> announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates#dtc-gen2-spectrum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Monday<\/a>. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the \u201cnext generation\u201d of Starlink\u2019s cellular satellite service, which customers of the EchoStar-owned Boost Mobile will gain access to as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In May, FCC Chair Brendan Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/679023\/dish-network-echostar-interest-payments-tv-satellite-fcc-investigation-spacex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened a probe<\/a> into EchoStar\u2019s 5G expansion after receiving a complaint from SpaceX, which claimed the company \u201cbarely uses\u201d its spectrum for satellite connectivity. EchoStar had originally planned to use its AWS-4 (2GHz) spectrum band to <a href=\"https:\/\/mda-en.investorroom.com\/2025-08-01-MDA-SPACE-SELECTED-BY-ECHOSTAR-FOR-WORLDS-FIRST-OPEN-RAN-D2D-LEO-CONSTELLATION\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enable direct-to-device satellite cell service<\/a>, but this sale puts an end to that goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In the press release, EchoStar CEO Hamid Akhavan said the deal will allow SpaceX \u201cto realize the direct-to-cell vision in a more innovative, economical and faster way for consumers worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[165,3,79,193,1513,172],"class_list":["post-142120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}