Today’s Headlines
■ Cable One Admits Chapter 11 an Option as MBI Battle Escalates
■ Combined Charter-Cox Down 233,000 Broadband Subs in Third Quarter
■ GCI CEO: Starlink Next-Gen LEO Threat at Least a Year Away
■ FCC Pushes Back on MAD’s Court Gambit in Fox 29 License Revocation Dispute
■ USTelecom to New Congress: Big Tech Needs to Kick In to USF
■ Local Leaders Claim FCC Has No Legal Authority to Manage ROW Access
■ SpaceX Partners with Qualcomm to Scale Starlink Mobile Nationwide
■ Gregory Casey Joins WOW! as Director of Government Affairs
■ Sen. Blumenthal Threatens Carr with ‘Alternative Measures’ to Obtain Records
Mobile: Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges said Elon Musk’s Starlink would need to spend more than $200 billion to become a meaningful competitor to terrestrial wireless networks. Speaking on a Nov. 5 investor call, Höttges dismissed the idea that satellite-based mobile service could replace traditional cellular networks, arguing that bandwidth constraints and indoor coverage challenges make such a scenario unrealistic. Deutsche Telekom is majority owner of T-Mobile US, with a stake of roughly 53%. “We always have said that satellite services will not substitute terrestrial service. It’s impossible,”Höttges said. (More after paywall)
