Elon Musk and the end of a telecom tycoon’s dream - Behind the Money

In recent weeks, satellite business EchoStar has clinched multibillion-dollar deals with SpaceX and AT&T. It may sound like boom times for founder Charlie Ergen, but these deals illustrate something different: the abandoning of an ambitious, decades-long quest to build his own mobile phone network. The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap and US trading and crypto correspondent Jill R Shah explain how Ergen’s fortunes changed, and the role Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump played in that.   Clips from CNBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Echostar/Vimeo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  For further reading:<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4681fa28-eb14-4cd3-9c2c-f26fabdca3aa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How a deal with Elon Musk helped a telecoms tycoon save his company from bankruptcy</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/da737bc5-49b0-46c5-b645-6af6b894fd9f" rel="noop...