

João
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This is (unintentionally) the funniest post of my day.

@MorganStanley recently issued a report that puts the value of #SpaceX at $100B. Let me start by saying that @MorganStanley disclaims that it may have "conflicts of interests" affecting its "objectivity". It is my opinion that it also affects @MorganStanley's common sense. 1/

@MorganStanley recently issued a report that puts the value of #SpaceX at $100B. Let me start by saying that @MorganStanley disclaims that it may have "conflicts of interests" affecting its "objectivity". It is my opinion that it also affects @MorganStanley's common sense. 1/








The big three carriers just agreed to do something they've never done before — pool spectrum against Starlink — and Gwynne Shotwell's reaction tells you exactly how worried SpaceX actually is spacedaily.com/sd-n-the-big-t…








Nvidia paid $6.01 per share for 2.9% of $NOK in October. Nokia is now at $9.55 I was at GTC and met with some of the Nokia exec team. What they described changes how you think about what a cell tower actually is. Jensen Huang called it "Robotic AI Radio." The idea is simple: a factory robot cannot wait 200 milliseconds for a cloud server to process its next move. So instead of sending that data back to a centralized data center, you run the inference directly at the cell tower. Every tower becomes a distributed AI compute node. $NOK is deploying $NVDA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs directly into its AI-RAN base stations to make this possible, running on $DELL PowerEdge servers. $TMUS was the first US carrier to pilot it. There are roughly 100,000 distributed network sites worldwide with enough spare capacity to add over 100 gigawatts of new AI compute over time. Nokia is the western vendor building the software stack that runs on top of Nvidia's hardware to make those sites intelligent. Nokia's acquisition of Infinera gave it 800G ZR coherent pluggables at exactly the moment hyperscalers started treating optical backbones as AI infrastructure, not telecom infrastructure. $CIEN is seeing the same demand and just guided $5.7 to $6.1 billion in revenue for fiscal 2026, up nearly 24%. $NOK Optical Networks grew 17% in Q4 2025, with €2.4B in hyperscaler orders for the full year. Management is targeting €3.1 to €3.7B in operating profit by 2028, up from just over €2B in 2025. The RAN market alone is projected to reach $200B by 2030. Nvidia did not buy into Nokia because they needed the equity exposure. They bought in because they needed the distribution.





SpaceX is justifying the price increase, saying it'll support improvements to Starlink. Even the Standby Mode costs more, doubling to $10 per month. pcmag.com/news/starlink-…






A small group of industry analysts including myself were pre-briefed on this very unconventional joint venture between @ATT, @TMobile and @Verizon. Eliminating dead zones is a noble endeavor to bridge the digital divide and to support first responders. I also like the potential to accelerate the deployment and scale of non-terrestrial networks utilizing low earth orbit satellite connectivity. However, I also view this alliance as a defensive move to mitigate the impact of any NTN service provider that might wish to more directly compete with mobile network operators. It's yet another interesting development in the race to space connectivity 🚀🛰️ ⬇️

Weeeelllll, I guess @Starlink Mobile is doing something right! It’s David and Goliath (X3) all over again — I’m bettin’ on David :)