The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the sale of EchoStar's spectrum licenses to AT&T and Starlink operator SpaceX, worth $40 billion. The approval comes after the FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, threatened to revoke the licenses last year after SpaceX alleged that Dish Network "barely uses" the spectrum. The deals allow AT&TT to acquire 30 MHz of nationwide spectrum licenses in the 3.45 GHz band and 20 MHz in the 600 MHz band, giving them new options for both mid-band and low-band spectrum in their 5G and mid-nightly. However, despite the approvals, EchoStar has reportedly objected to an FCC-imposed condition requiring it to fund an escrow account of $2.4 billion to compensate construction companies that were hired to build the Dish network.