Telecom Intelligence: Week of January 8, 2024 The satellites launched the previous week found their voice: SpaceX and T-Mobile exchanged the first text messages ever sent through Starlink's direct-to-cell constellation to ordinary smartphones — six days from launch to working service. In Washington, the SEC's X account was hijacked to post a fake bitcoin-ETF approval that moved billions in market value before the real approval landed a day later — a compromised phone number, not a platform hack, and the agency had no multi-factor authentication enabled. And OpenAI opened the GPT Store, its app-store moment, betting that custom chatbots become a platform economy with revenue sharing to follow.