AST SpaceMobile, Vodafone, Rakuten, and AT&T lay claim to making the first regular cellular phone call on an unmodified smartphone via a satellite base station.
AST SpaceMobile has announced the successful completion of the first-ever two-way voice calls to unmodified smartphones using the BlueWalker 3 satellite.
This has been touted as an important step to providing space-based GSM connectivity globally, including cellular broadband. AST SpaceMobile team at the company’s Midland, Texas headquarters, with engineers from testing partners Vodafone, Rakuten and AT&T They plan to deliver a global cellular network from space. In a briefing early last year, the company told investors that its networkThis is the latest milestone in the company’s “goal of transforming the way the world connects,” said Abel Avellan, chairman and chief executive officer of AST SpaceMobile.
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