Echostar is at it again. They’re selling MORE spectrum – this time their AWS-3 licenses – to SpaceX. This sale nets them another $2.6B in SpaceX stock.
So, combine this with the sale of spectrum that SpaceX bought in September, and we ask the question:
Is SpaceX trying to be a mobile carrier?
Industry analyst Roger Entner says it’s certainly possible:
With the addition of AWS-3 spectrum, “he can cobble together a network with that,”
Time will tell what SpaceX will do with their newly acquired licenses.
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