SpaceX’s $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrum band. DTC is an emerging service and we are going from it ...

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