SpaceX Buys More Spectrum, Musk and Market Structure, Distributed Cellular
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SpaceX accumulating spectrum for a distributed cellular play points to a future where satellite and terrestrial networks blur into a single access layer. If you run global products, start modeling what happens when coverage becomes more uniform but more vertically integrated.
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