SpaceX Satellite Internet Plan Hits Dish Ground Interference (1)

Even as SpaceX plans to launch another batch of satellites in its quest to provide ultrafast internet service from orbit, the company’s plan is running into interference on the ground.

Rivals, including Dish Network Corp. and RS Access LLC, want to use some of the same spectrum SpaceX covets for its satellite internet plan to launch terrestrial 5G services. The Federal Communications Commission, in deciding how to use the spectrum, will give an edge to space-based internet or terrestrial 5G—or somehow figure out a way to satisfy everyone.

The decision will “be a really interesting signal to investors and everyone ...