SpaceX wants to turn Starlink Mobile into a full-fledged mobile carrier, and it expects to hit the Big Three wireless giants in the process.
During SpaceX’s first earnings call since its June IPO, President Gwynne Shotwell said the company plans to launch its next-generation Starlink Mobile satellites in 2027 and start providing an upgraded service by the end of that year.
The network would use the extra wireless capacity — 65 megahertz of spectrum — that the company agreed to acquire from EchoStar. Shotwell said the result would be “100 times better” than Starlink Mobile’s current service.
Shotwell also namedropped the three dominating…
