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India’s Vi and AST SpaceMobile partner to provide satellite connectivity in India

June 19, 2025

Vi (Vodafone Idea), India’s telecom service provider, and AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard smartphones, for commercial and government […]

Filed Under: 4G, 4G / 5G, Agriculture, AST SpaceMobile, Business Moves, Cellular Broadband, Commercial Partnerships, Comms, Consumer, Disaster Management, Emergency Response, Enterprise, India, internet, Internet Connectivity, Internet of Things (IoT), Partnerships, SATCOM, Satellite Connectivity, Satellite Direct-to-Smartphones, Space-Based Cellular Broadeband, Subscribers, Terrestrial Connectivity, Vodaphone

AST SpaceMobile and U.S. National Science Foundation’s Coordination Agreement between satellite and ground-based astronomy operations

April 29, 2025

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), is building the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, has signed a Coordination Agreement […]

Filed Under: Agreement, Agreement, AST SpaceMobile, Astronomy, Business Agreements, Business Moves, Cellular Broadband, Commercial, Communications Satellite, Education, Environmental Changes, Environmental Monitoring, Government, Healthcare, Interference, Network, Satellite Direct-to-Smartphones, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

AST SpaceMobile establishes a commercial agreement with Vodafone through 2034

December 12, 2024

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by smartphones, commercial and government applications, and Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD), a European […]

Filed Under: Argentina, AST SpaceMobile, BlueBird smallsats (AST SpaceMobile), Business Moves, Cellular Broadband, Commercial, Comms, Communication Arrays, Gateway, Google, Government, internet, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Milestone, Orange [France], Satellite Direct-to-Smartphones, Saudi Arabia, Telefonica, TIM Brasil

SpaceX’s Starlink Direct-to-Cellular service testing in Romania and U.S. and others

October 8, 2024

SpaceX’s Starlink broadband system is testing its Direct-to-Cellular (D2C) satellite phone system in Romania, designed to show that Starlink satellites can operate at up to eight times the capacity currently […]

Filed Under: AST SpaceMobile, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Earth Stations, FCC, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Geostationary Orbit (GEO), Google, Japan, Romania, Satellite Direct-to-Smartphones, smallsats, Starlink, Telcos, United States

T-Mobile conducts the 1st wireless emergency alert via satellite

September 15, 2024

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) successfully sent and received – for the first time in the U.S. – a wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite — this breakthrough opens up the 500,000 […]

Filed Under: In-Space Testing, LEO Connectivity, LEO Payloads, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), On-Orbit Testing, Satellite Direct-to-Smartphones, SmallSat, Smallsat Communications, Smallsat Constellation, Smallsat Fleet, Smallsat Markets, smallsats, Starlink, WEA Via Satellite

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