From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Amazon’s planned 5,105-satellite LEO constellation signals a shift in the D2D race – from proving satellite connectivity to embedding it within mainstream telco networks. The contest is to integrate non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) into mainstream telco infrastructure, with a business-model wraparound to put D2D into the hands of consumers and enterprises. The industry’s vocabulary is already changing from D2D to NTN, and increasingly from NTN towards 3D networks. Instead of treating terrestrial and satellite as separate technologies, telcos are viewing them like complementary access layers within a single comms platform. If the industry succeeds, users will stop thinking about satellite connectivity altogether.