# T-Mobile

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-06-25**: Mobile Service Plans Revealed — Financial Times reports SpaceX's plan for a Starlink mobile retail service; President Shotwell discusses terrestrial network ambitions at IPO roadshow.
- **2025-11**: Additional Spectrum Purchase — SpaceX buys more spectrum from EchoStar for $2.6 billion, solidifying its mobile assets.
- **2025-09**: Spectrum Acquisition — SpaceX acquires wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for approximately $17 billion.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### SpaceX Starlink's 10M Subscribers Drive $19.6B Spectrum Bet on Mobile
2026-07-25 16:07:52 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

SpaceX is preparing to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, according to an FT report, leveraging $19.6 billion in spectrum acquisitions and a 10-million-subscriber base. The move threatens to disrupt the $1.6 trillion communications industry by potentially building its own terrestrial network alongside its orbital constellation. For the space sector, this signals a paradigm shift where low-Earth orbit assets directly challenge ground-based telecom infrastructure.
Full story: https://getspacebrief.com/story/spacex-starlink-mobile-service-spectrum-bet

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