Despite perennial disputes over spectrum rights, there has been cooperation between the satellite and cellular industries in various ways. Mobile operators frequently have agreements with satellite broadband providers to deliver fixed access services to remote communities, or mobile services to ships and vehicles. Satellite-enabled technologies like GPS are foundational to many mobile broadband applications and support temporary or emergency access when cellular has failed. Satellite TV providers may partner with MNOs to include mobile broadband in their bundles, or even build their own networks, as Dish is doing in the USA. And satellite can be an option for backhauling cellular base stations in remote areas. All these areas of cooperation have been fairly marginal to the mobile operators’ business cases,…