Today marks the ๐ฑ๐ณ๐๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ of ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฎ's second solo album, ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐, arguably the best album in his entire discography.
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What is your favorite track from the album?
T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.
This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.
Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.
Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.
Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.
Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.
The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.
Is Fox News really dumbing down their network? You decide.
The woman on the left is still at Fox and occasionally appears as a fill-in cohost on The Five.
Fox News parted ways with the woman on the right who now hosts her own show on News Nation.
So you decide, is Fox News dumbing down?
I'm hearing too many people say this:
"But broadcasting Hasan's execution is beneath the dignity & decency of our nation."
Na bro, America needs this. Far too many act like their actions dont have consequences.
Just think of it as a late term abortion.