LA PLATA, Maryland — EchoStar Corp., which has regulatory rights to deploy a global S-band mobile direct-to-device (D2D)/IoT service but has done little to deploy it, said it will move only when the installed base of smartphones and other devices compatible with D2D is ready.
In a May 9 investor call, Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan insisted that any D2D service launched now would be either premature or, if using terrestrial spectrum instead of satellite spectrum, would be hobbled by regulatory restrictions to prevent interference with neighboring cell service . . .
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