SpaceX, apparently unsatisfied with merely launching rockets and cluttering the night sky, is now gunning for your phone bill. According to a Bloomberg report, the company plans to access at least 80,000 cell sites as part of its effort to compete directly with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Because why dominate one industry when you can annoy customers in two?

Sources say SpaceX is in talks with Crown Castle Inc., one of the nation's largest cell tower owners. That little arrangement would hand SpaceX access to half of the 158,500 cell towers currently operational in the US, per Reuters. When pressed about a potential partnership with SpaceX, Amazon, or other satellite services during an earnings call on Wednesday, Crown Castle CEO Chris Hillabrant offered the corporate equivalent of a shrug: "I don't think I want to get into customer-specific detail, but you can assume that we're talking to all parties." Translation: yes, we're talking to everyone with a checkbook.

The grand plan is to pair that terrestrial tower network with SpaceX's constellation of direct-to-cell satellites. Earlier this month, SpaceX acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses and secured FCC approval to deploy 15,000 upgraded V2 Starlink Mobile satellites - moves the company claims will "pave the way" for Starlink Mobile to become a "major" carrier in the US. And if that wasn't enough, the Elon Musk-owned company also scooped up 2GHz spectrum from EchoStar for $17 billion last year. So, to recap: satellites, spectrum, towers, and a healthy dose of regulatory blessings. What could possibly go wrong?