@DTathletic Where’s the outrage at them doing this with 115 separate instances of them breaking financial rules to gain an unfair advantage over the other teams.. it’s horrendous how your industry just ignores this.. you should be campaigning for them to expelled from the premier league
@endless_frank@Reformed_Trader@thekookreport The $1billon covers up to half the cost of the build. Does the JV cover the other half? Or does AST produce at its own cost on behalf of the JV negating the need for Rakuten to pay. Rakuten agree to remove their Japanese exclusivity - AST fund their share.
@spacanpanman Rakuten raised approx $400mio from their recent share sale. Assumed to pay down their debt. JV with AST on 50:50 terms with Japan Gov putting in $1bio.. AST raised $1bio in Feb relatively out of the blue
wth no specific purpose stated at the time.. back of envelope, all adds up.
@endless_frank @TheRealWolfff I think it may run into regulatory issues in terms of creating a monopoly. FCC have made repeated statements on how they value competition
@MWM76 Value of their assets (spectrum (even leased given length), IP, cash, signed contracts provides a floor value at or around current levels - certainly within $15 or so. Compare that to a potential upside of $2600 and a $trillion valuation.. risk reward insane at these levels
@MWM76 And again confirming (he did same on earnings call) that we’ve been working the the government on this for five years… also interesting nugget today they suggested they could build government only sats… I know current ones are dual use - but that would make sense for major deal
@MWM76 They confirmed on the last earnings call they expect government revenue annually to be in the billions with an “s”… they are speaking confidently about this - Scott today again talking about Golden Dome and the budget for it with the urgency for it
@SpacBobby@thekookreport Consistent with management expressing their expectation for billionS in revenue from government contracts during the last earnings call