Home › Vodafone, Rakuten back SpaceMobile satellite-based broadband venture
 

Keywords :   


Vodafone, Rakuten back SpaceMobile satellite-based broadband venture

2020-03-03 09:36:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Vodafone and Japan's Rakuten have become the new lead investors in a venture to expand mobile coverage using a mobile broadband network that will be broadcast from space. The low-Earth-orbit (LEO), low-latency satellite network from Texas-based AST & Science has been dubbed SpaceMobile and is aiming to be the first in the world to connect directly to standard smartphones, said Vodafone in a statement.

Tags: back venture broadband vodafone

Category:Telecommunications

Latest from this category

All news
»
22.05Olympics and Taylor Swift scams fuel 2024 fraud
22.05Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
22.05Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
22.05UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots
21.05Clarins Begins Testing Generative AI-powered Customer Care Bot in US
21.05Waldencast Reports $68.3 Million in Net Revenue in Q1 2024
21.05Pixalate releases April 2024 top grossing CTV apps report
21.05A+E Networks EMEA enhances BLAZE streaming service with Simplestream
More »