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So we will have two providers in the near future: SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile
by thibran 3y ago
So we will have two providers in the near future: SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile
- lxgr 3y agoWe already have many more existing satellite-to-mobile providers: - Iridium (partnership with Qualcomm) - Globalstar (my bet is that Apple will buy them before too long) - Skylo (using leased transponders on various existing GEO MSATs for 5G NTN; used by e.g. Bullit/“Motorola”) - Inmarsat (pretty clunky phones for now, but they own a lot of L-band spectrum and are apparently one of Skylo’s partners for 5G NTN) - Thuraya (regional only)