Today, AT&T announced that it entered into a deal with AST SpaceMobile to launch a satellite-to-smartphone service soon. AT&T has been working closely with the satellite network company since 2018.
AST SpaceMobile has ramped up demonstrations of voice calls, texts, and video calls via satellite over the last year, using 4G LTE and 5G connections with download bandwidth reaching 14Mbps.
An upcoming AT&T satellite service promises to bring satellite comms to the iPhone 12 and 13 for the first time. Unlike Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite service, it will support phone calls ...
That “next SpaceX,” of course, would be competing with the actual SpaceX, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk and has a ...
AT&T put a ring on its work with AST SpaceMobile, announcing official plans to provide a satellite-based broadband network connection to AT&T smartphones. The “definitive commercial agreement ...
Japan’s LignoSat will test wood’s resilience in space and could lead to a new era of more sustainable, less polluting ...
AST SpaceMobile is a leader in developing satellites able to communicate directly with stock cellular phones - promising to ...
SpaceX currently operates more than 5,000 Starlink satellites in orbit of Earth, and that number could balloon if Elon Musk ...
Previously limited to emergency SOS use, Apple's feature now enables anyone lacking a wireless signal to stay connected. But ...
One of those surprises is that Apple is expanding its satellite services beyond emergencies and roadside assistance. With iOS ...
The FCC has gotten things rolling on a framework (PDF) for companies interested in building these types of services, with the idea of what Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel called a single network ...