Vodafone held the world’s first satellite -based view meeting

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Vodafone held the world’s first satellite -based view meeting
Vodafone, one of the world’s leading mobile operators, successfully performed the first video satellite conversation with a standard smartphone. Vodafone said it would spread technology in Europe at the end of the year and 2026 to show that it is not a simple technology demo.

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

Mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers compete to quickly activate satellite services to close the gaps in the networking area. Apple, starting with iPhone 14 models, with low -band width emergency services communication, friends and family began to offer features such as sending messages. People like Google and Samsung offer similar satellite -supported services.

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.