--- title: Starlink wants to be your next mobile operator | daily.dev description: SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed plans to build ground-based network infrastructure and turn Starlink into a full mobile service, using 65MHz of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/starlink-wants-to-be-your-next-mobile-operator-lrwzemhn6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Starlink wants to be your next mobile operator | daily.dev og:description: SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed plans to build ground-based network infrastructure and turn Starlink into a full mobile service, using 65MHz of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/starlink-wants-to-be-your-next-mobile-operator-lrwzemhn6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lRWzemHN6.png og:image:alt: Starlink wants to be your next mobile operator og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Starlink wants to be your next mobile operator **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed plans to build ground-based network infrastructure and turn Starlink into a full mobile service, using 65MHz of wireless spectrum acquired from EchoStar for $19.6 billion. The announcement sent shares of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile down 2–4%. Analysts are skeptical, noting incumbents built their networks over 30 years with roughly 1GHz of spectrum, and that replicating that with 65MHz would be extraordinarily difficult within five years. SpaceX currently partners with T-Mobile for direct-to-cell satellite coverage in dead zones. In South Africa, Starlink remains unlicensed due to a 30% historically disadvantaged ownership requirement it cannot meet, with a legislative fix measured in years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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