spectrum
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The twice-bankrupt telecom company said the Pentagon was using its licensed wireless spectrum rights without compensation, threatening its business model.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“You can spend huge amounts of money on satellites, but you cannot shortcut spectrum and licensing in the same way,” Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum Equities, told MarketWatch via email.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Just as two radio stations in the same city can’t broadcast on the same frequency, companies such as AT&T, Verizon, and SpaceX need spectrum for their customers’ calls and data.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
SpaceX last autumn cut a deal to buy spectrum from Charlie Ergen’s floundering EchoStar for $20 billion with the goal of bolstering its direct-to-cell service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The first hint of the true situation came not from spectroscopic studies in the visible or near-infrared parts of the spectrum, but rather from the radio region.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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