T-Mobile owner on Elon Musk launching a wireless carrier: ‘Welcome to the party’

The caput of T-Mobile's genitor institution is casting uncertainty connected SpaceX's plans to marque Starlink Mobile a "major" bearer successful the US. During an net telephone connected Thursday, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges says helium takes the Elon Musk-owned institution "super serious," but that it volition outgo astatine slightest $200 cardinal to propulsion off:

He [Musk] has present bought 76 megahertz of spectrum. By the way, we person 400. So if you present accidental helium tin bargain the spectrum prospectively, bash your math. These are benignant of triple-digit billions which are needed to summation the spectrum position. If helium has the money, spell for it. Then helium has to physique a network. I tin archer you, we person 85,000 operation …

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