June 26 (Reuters) – SpaceX and internet provider Charter Communications have held executive-level \u200ctalks about partnering on a \u200cconsumer mobile phone offering in the United \u200bStates, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing sources. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Charter Communications declined to comment to Reuters. SpaceX did not \u200cimmediately respond \u2060to a request for comment outside office hours. <\/p>\n
\u2022 SpaceX already \u2060offers direct-to-cell connectivity with T-Mobile in the U.S., providing supplemental coverage \u200bfrom space \u200bto extend \u200binternet access to \u200cremote areas. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Charter could run some of SpaceX’s phone traffic through its ground-based internet infrastructure, the report said. <\/p>\n
\u2022 SpaceX has told investors it plans \u200cto launch a \u200bStarlink mobile service for \u200bU.S. consumers, \u200bthe Financial Times reported \u200cearlier on Friday, which \u200bcould allow \u200bthe Elon Musk-led company to compete directly with Verizon, AT&T and \u200bT-Mobile. <\/p>\n
(Reporting \u200cby Natalia Bueno Rebolledo in Mexico \u200bCity; Editing by Sahal Muhammed \u200band Edmund Klamann) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 26 (Reuters) – SpaceX and internet provider Charter Communications have held executive-level \u200ctalks about partnering on a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":895773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[24],"tags":[57039,266690,258978,33537,159,783,2527,4521,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-895772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-charter-communications","tag-citing-sources","tag-internet-provider","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-t-mobile","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116820435887823529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}