FCC Says Amazon Must Focus on Its Own Buildout, Not SpaceX

The head of the Federal Communications Commission chastised Amazon.com Inc. for filing a petition critical of rival satellite operator SpaceX while Amazon itself is behind on meeting deployment obligations.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr suggested that Amazon overstepped in a request for regulators to deny SpaceX’s plan for a 1 million-satellite constellation.

“Amazon should focus on the fact that it will fall roughly 1,000 satellites short of meeting its upcoming deployment milestone, rather than spending their time and resources filing petitions against companies that are putting thousands of satellites in orbit,” Carr wrote on a post on X. ...