Week of June 2–7, 2025Telecom Intelligence: Week of June 2, 2025
June opened with EchoStar deepening its game of financial chicken, skipping roughly 183 million dollars in interest payments on its DISH DBS notes on June 2 and blaming the FCC's review of its spectrum licenses for freezing its ability to make decisions. T-Mobile, meanwhile, formally became a fiber company, launching T-Mobile Fiber home internet nationwide on June 5 with a five-year price guarantee, the consumer-facing debut of its Lumos and Metronet joint ventures. And the month's regulatory docket filled in around them, with spectrum sharing studies, satellite items, and the EchoStar proceeding dominating the FCC's June calendar.