
A first from Vodafone
Margherita Della Valle, CEO of Vodafone, took the search made by the company’s engineer Rowan Chesmer in the mountains of Wales, a completely remote area. Della Valle said in a statement, “We were using a single satellite service that could offer a complete mobile experience with a normal device, so you get everything from sound to text and video data transmission, so we had a full video interview.”
Vodafone uses AST Space Spacemobile’s five Bluebird satellites in its low -world orbit to provide transmission speed of up to 120 megabity per second for standard smartphones. However, if Vodafone and AST want to spread the service throughout Europe and offer adequate speeds, it has to increase the number of satellites.
Abel Avellan, the founder of AST Spacemobile, said, “Together, we have reached many principles, including the first space -based voice search on a large space -based band connection, the first 4G download speed above 10 Mbps and the first 5G voice call. This latest success, using our Bluebird satellites, brings us one step closer to our mission to eliminate the gaps of the coverage and make the cellular wide band accessible to everyone. ”
Operators are competing on this issue

In the United States, T-Mobile and Elon Musk’s SpaceX tests text services with Starlink’s DTC-featured satellites. These tests have also started in New Zealand. At the same time, the company will activate this service for Ukraine during the year.