{"id":14875,"date":"2026-08-06T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:34","slug":"spacex-claims-starlink-mobile-will-be-better-than-att-t-mobile-and-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14875","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&#038;T, T-Mobile, and Verizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Jon Brodkin<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 5, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>SpaceX says it has a plan for Starlink Mobile to compete against the big three wireless carriers and take a large number of customers away from them.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has so far partnered with traditional mobile carriers to supplement their ground-based networks with Starlink satellite capacity, mainly to ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/t-mobile-expands-starlink-texting-service-to-cover-verizon-and-att-users\/\">coverage from space in dead zones<\/a> not reached by cell towers. But SpaceX is buying spectrum licenses that would let it offer its own terrestrial service to compete directly against the big carriers, and the firm&#8217;s top executives said in yesterday&#8217;s earnings call they plan to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spectrum that we <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/09\/spacex-complaints-to-fcc-pay-off-with-17-billion-spectrum-buy-from-echostar\/\">purchased from EchoStar<\/a> does have terrestrial components, so we definitely intend to build out the terrestrial component,&#8221; SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in response to questions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OA2VL9TFvPo\">earnings call<\/a>. &#8220;So you will have not only the capacity from the satellites themselves, but you will have a buildout of the terrestrial, basically the hardware and systems necessary to make a true mobile service exactly what you want it to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/08\/spacex-claims-starlink-mobile-will-be-better-than-att-t-mobile-and-verizon\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/08\/spacex-claims-starlink-mobile-will-be-better-than-att-t-mobile-and-verizon\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/08\/spacex-claims-starlink-mobile-will-be-better-than-att-t-mobile-and-verizon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Brodkin &bull; August 5, 2026 SpaceX says it has a plan for Starlink Mobile to compete against the big three wireless carriers and take a large number of customers away from them. SpaceX has so far partnered with traditional mobile carriers to supplement their ground-based networks with Starlink satellite capacity, mainly to ensure coverage<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14875\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}