SpaceX is looking to buy Boost Mobile from EchoStar, according to a report from The Washington Post. If the deal goes through, it would help the Elon Musk-owned company build a hybrid cellular-satellite network that could help catapult it into fourth place among the top U.S. wireless providers.

The space-launch company has been dabbling in cellular connectivity, rolling out satellite access to T-Mobile’s subscribers in 2024. Last year, SpaceX bought $17 billion worth of wireless spectrum from EchoStar for cellular services, which could help the company’s Starlink service reach inside buildings, for example, something it currently struggles with.

“This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America,” Musk said on X at the time of the spectrum acquisition. Yet, if Musk is still looking to buy access to terrestrial networks, it apparently wasn’t the last piece.

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[–] 13 points 5 days ago*

Too big to fail means too big to exist...

We have an entire branch of law devoted to how we fix this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

30 years of switching between Republicans and neoliberals just stripped it to the bone, we can do build it up again tho.

Take Elmo's chainsaw and take it to all the major corpos so there's actual competition and no one CEO has this much power ever again.

We can just do what Teddy did over a century ago, it's not a hypothetical we've fixed this problem before and we can fix it again.

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