Amazon Just Bought Its Way Into the Phone-Satellite Race
Reading Time : 3 minutesThe FCC’s approval of Amazon’s eleven and a half billion dollar Globalstar acquisition is less about satellites than about spectrum. Amazon gains roughly twenty five megahertz of mobile satellite airwaves, a working relationship with Apple, and authorization to build a forty eight satellite direct-to-device network. The deal buys Amazon a regulatory and commercial shortcut in its race against Starlink.