埃隆·马斯克的 SpaceX 刚刚赢得了一项监管胜利，这可能使星链（Starlink）在与无线巨头 Verizon、AT&T 和 T-Mobile 的竞争中获得更多实力。
Elon Musk's SpaceX just scored a regulatory win that could give Starlink more power to compete with wireless giants Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）正式批准了 SpaceX 部署和运营 15,000 颗星链卫星的申请，以提供直接到设备的连接服务。
The Federal Communications Commission officially granted SpaceX's request to deploy and operate 15,000 Starlink satellites to provide direct-to-device connectivity.
此外，FCC 豁免了一项要求与一个或多个地面无线运营商进行租赁安排的规则，允许 SpaceX 将自己的频谱用于该服务。
Additionally, the FCC waived a rule that requires a leasing arrangement with one or more terrestrial wireless carriers, allowing SpaceX to use its own spectrum for the service.
FCC 在周一发布的命令中表示：“通过这一行动，SpaceX 计划中的部署将重塑基于频谱的连接，通过改善竞争，让更多消费者在更多地方有更多选择，以进一步推进委员会‘将每个人、每个地方连接到现代通信服务’的目标。”尽管如此，SpaceX 仍面临其希望挑战的运营商的怀疑。
"With this action, SpaceX's planned deployments will reshape spectrum-based connectivity by improving competition, allowing more consumers more choices in more places to further the Commission's goal to 'connect everyone, everywhere to modern communications services,'" the FCC said in its order released Monday. Still, SpaceX faces skepticism from the carriers it hopes to take on.
Verizon 首席执行官丹·舒尔曼（Dan Schulman）上个月在一次高盛会议上表示：“我们看到任何低地轨道卫星提供商（包括星链）对我们的宽带增长都没有产生明显的影响。”
"We've seen no zero discernible impact on our broadband growth from any LEO, low earth orbit satellite provider, including Starlink," Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said at a Goldman Sachs conference last month.
舒尔曼补充说，他认为卫星在“中长期甚至更长时间内都不是一个可行的竞争对手”。
Schulman added that he does not view satellite as a "viable competitor in the medium and even longer term."