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Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal

Posted by JumpCrisscross |3 hours ago |1 comments

lxgr an hour ago

Interesting, I was expecting Apple to eventually buy them.

Still, makes sense to me: The aging Globalstar satellite constellation itself is probably not very interesting to Amazon, but their global L-band and S-band spectrum is, as are their existing licenses to operate a mobile satellite service in most countries.