Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

@kz The equipment installs already exist and the government approvals will stay in place as the installs change owners, no different than when TMO took over Sprint sites. The current owners (the tower owners) are highly motivated to get those installs into other hands.

Starlink won't be sending the same sorority sister types to negotiate those deals (who routinely get taken to the cleaners) like the 3 carriers do.
He'll have those deals finalized likely by year's end.

SpaceX "Starlink" now running to Boost Mobile.

■ It (Still) takes both AT&T, and T-Mobile's approval.

■ It will (Still) take 5-7 years for SpaceX "Starlink" to build a Fully-Functioning Cellular Network.

■ Satellite (Does Not) provide Indoor or Dense Population Coverage so still (Inferior).

@e3 Dish was 10 years out for nation wide when they shut down. Also just because they want to take over the Dish location does not mean anything, they still have to go through leasing and zoning just as if it was a newly built site. Dish found that out the hard way as they were gifted Sprint sites and old Nextel sites and had to go through the process all over again. Also Landlords are now becoming more concerned with EME and have even halted upgrades to Verizon, ATT and T-mob because of EME concerns.

@hq But you are forgetting one thing. Verizon Wireless is done. By this time next year, it’s over.

@k0 Uh oh! Are you questioning Taterhead and the Tots? They don’t believe in reality.

@fj There’s a reason why Google Fiber never scaled. They learned very quickly what it takes to build a large scale fiber network. Maybe Elon can partner with Google Fiber to connect all of those towers.

Go look at the panel gaps on your director’s Tesla, Elon is not all he is made to be. SpaceX has done some impressive things, but most of his other ventures have been plagued by issues or never come to fruition. He is an egotistical hype man in a world d-mb enough to listen to egotistical hype men.

He holds enough control over both Tesla and SpaceX to have access to the funds and borrowing power necessary to build a network if he chose to do so and could sell the spending of Tesla’s money to its shareholders by claiming having their own network is essential for self driving cars, maybe turn it into some new necessary AI infrastructure overpromise. It is starting to feel like some of the AI hype is finally starting to be taken back by reality but the people who buy stock in companies like his are the people he holds Charles Manson like control over.

It would be incredibly stupid to spend a massive amount of money to attempt to enter a slow growth, mature, and low margin industry where he would have to immediately compete on price further lowering margins just to sell phone and internet service, but he may try to do it. I don’t think Elon is financially irresponsible enough to do it but he is childish enough to do it.

What is scary is the way he has been laying with politicians over the last few years, if he is able to get favorable costs on spectrum licenses or convinces the government to subsidize part of a network buildout under the promise of rural coverage or some play on access equality, the calculus and threat changes dramatically. Imagine a SpaceX network paid for by the taxes on our severance packages.

@bh you must work in sales. Well you could be engineer since they're not to smart either today

Musk (does not have a Clue) what it takes to build out a Full- Functioning Wireless Carrier Network.

It takes a lot more than just acquiring 80,000 unleased cell towers that have no RAN - Radio Access Equipment attached.

Musk can use his own $500.0 Billion and build his own Wireless Carrier Network (not mooch off off the Established Wireless Carriers) that took the 5-7 years to build out their own Wireless Carrier Networks.

@fb Taterhead is about to throw 500B to offer 35mb data speeds.

Because 5GUWB was such a success. Oh how about Blue Jeans.. 500M down the toilet.

@ev You probably touted Vz 5G home internet. And we all know what a disaster that was.

@e3 the spectrum he bought is 1/7 the amount you need to run a real network.

@eg Have you used actually Starlink? I have, it works quite well, not the fastest but more than adequate for most users. So far I haven't seen it stall like my 5G does routinely.

@e3 Those dishes are the equivalent of a tin can on a string without a terrestrial network to connect them to something. Keep telling yourself otherwise.

@aq Yep, already in the trades that Starlink is in talks with big tower owners to take over installations of Dish that have been forfeited to the tower owners. All he has to do is power them up and use spectrum he recently purchased and he's in business. It won't be 7, 5 or 3 years. He could conceivably do it in under one.

Leave ELMO and his products alone….he is not trustworthy, not of sound mind, and is interfering in global conflicts.

lol. 😂 please provide the source of ur information!!! This will happen sooner than you think!

@ap 💰💰💰💰💰💰Approved!!!

@ar 😂😂😂😂😂 Money talks. Have you been paying attention the last two years?

It will happen. Sooner than you think. Watch this spot.

@ar Taterhead doesn’t believe in regulations or physics. He believes in pay to play.

@aq Every state PUC/PSC and the FCC need to approve this before they offer service to a single customer.

@OP Not going to build new infrastructure. They will be taking over existing. It is going to happen.

@OP If they get regulatory approval. IF