A rising tide lifts all rockets?
Tim Farrar, an analyst at satellite and telecom-focused consulting and research firm Telecom, Media and Finance Associates, however, thinks T-Mobile’s timing could be because another huge competitor is about to enter the market — one that could have advantages that AST, SpaceX, and Lynk don’t.
While AST has regulatory approval for commercial operation in seven countries, according to Wisniewski, the FCC has only authorized it toAs for SpaceX and T-Mobile, their plans are quite a ways out, giving the companies time to try and work things out with regulators — they don’t expect to even start testing their service until the end of next year.
As for AST and Lynk, neither company is particularly interested in competing on that front. “You don’t need to build these remote cell towers if your phone’s already connected by the satellite,” said Miller.At this point, there’s really only one thing that seems totally clear: T-Mobile and SpaceX have let a genie out of the bottle.
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