‘The answer is no’: T-Mobile dismisses persistent satco MVNO talk

Richard Agnew2026-06-04T15:35:00

Source: T-Mobile US

Operator’s CFO Peter Osvaldik maintains a hard no on suggestions of a satellite operator wholesale access agreement, amid ongoing conjecture around how competition with the likes of Amazon and Starlink could play out for US carriers.

This article includes:

Organisations: AST SpaceMobile; AT&T; Echostar; Evercore; Evercore ISI; Federal Communications Commission; Fierce Network; JPMorgan; MoffettNathanson; SpaceX; Starlink; T-Mobile US; The Besen Group; Verizon; Wolfe Research.
Geographies: North America; United States of America (USA).
People: Alex Besen; Srini Gopalan; Kutgun Maral; Peter Osvaldik; Daniel Schulman; John Stankey; Peter Supino.
Themes: 5G; AWS-3 spectrum; Direct-to-device services (D2D); Joint ventures; Low-Earth orbit satellites (LEO); Mid-band spectrum; Mobile virtual network aggregator; Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO); Radio frequencies; Satellite communications; Spectrum; T-Satellite; Telecommunications; Upper C-Band; Wholesale access.

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