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03 Nov 2026, 12:44 AM	TechCrunch	2.5	SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon The Washington Post reported that SpaceX is looking to buy Boost Mobile from EchoStar, with Elon Musk reportedly speaking directly to EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen about a deal in October. EchoStar has roughly 7.5 million customers across Boost Mobile and GenMobile, and the acquisition would give SpaceX terrestrial network access rather than just subscribers — it follows SpaceX's $17 billion spectrum purchase from EchoStar last year. The complication: Boost owns no towers and leases capacity from AT&T and T-Mobile, and sources told the Post that network leases are usually nontransferable, so those carriers may get a say in whether the deal happens. Why: For Malaysian builders there is no decision to make here — this is a US carrier M&A report with no product, pricing, API, or policy change attached. The one concrete detail worth noting if you ship SMS/OTP or roaming-dependent features for US users: Boost runs on leased AT&T and T-Mobile capacity that is usually nontransferable, so the deal can stall at the carriers' discretion regardless of the reported subscriber numbers. telecom spacex m-and-a satellite

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03 Nov 2026, 12:44 AM

TechCrunch

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SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

The Washington Post reported that SpaceX is looking to buy Boost Mobile from EchoStar, with Elon Musk reportedly speaking directly to EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen about a deal in October. EchoStar has roughly 7.5 million customers across Boost Mobile and GenMobile, and the acquisition would give SpaceX terrestrial network access rather than just subscribers — it follows SpaceX's $17 billion spectrum purchase from EchoStar last year. The complication: Boost owns no towers and leases capacity from AT&T and T-Mobile, and sources told the Post that network leases are usually nontransferable, so those carriers may get a say in whether the deal happens.

Why: For Malaysian builders there is no decision to make here — this is a US carrier M&A report with no product, pricing, API, or policy change attached. The one concrete detail worth noting if you ship SMS/OTP or roaming-dependent features for US users: Boost runs on leased AT&T and T-Mobile capacity that is usually nontransferable, so the deal can stall at the carriers' discretion regardless of the reported subscriber numbers.