{"id":199624,"date":"2024-11-17T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ast-spacemobile-to-test-cellular-satellites-with-2k-att-verizon-devices"},"modified":"2024-11-17T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:22:47","slug":"ast-spacemobile-to-test-cellular-satellites-with-2k-att-verizon-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ast-spacemobile-to-test-cellular-satellites-with-2k-att-verizon-devices","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile to Test Cellular Satellites With 2K AT&amp;T, Verizon Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ast-spacemobile-to-test-cellular-satellites-with-2k-att-verizon-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2025 and 2026, the company also plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/starlink-rival-ast-spacemobile-gambles-on-blue-origin-to-launch-large-satellites\" target=\"_self\">launch<\/a> up to 60 next-generation BlueBird satellites with an even larger communications array. The satellites will enable AST SpaceMobile to offer \u201cfull continuous service\u201d for potentially hundreds of millions of cellphone customers.<\/p>\n<p>However, satellite industry analyst Tim Farrar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMFAssociates\/status\/1857231784964186345\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab)\">notes<\/a> that AST SpaceMobile still needs FCC approval before it can launch and operate more BlueBird satellites. In August, the US regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/ast-spacemobile-receives-only-partial-fcc-approval-for-its-starlink-rival\" target=\"_self\">tabled<\/a> the company\u2019s request to deploy 243 more satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025 and 2026, the company also plans to launch up to 60 next-generation BlueBird satellites with an even larger communications array. The satellites will enable AST SpaceMobile to offer \u201cfull continuous service\u201d for potentially hundreds of millions of cellphone customers. However, satellite industry analyst Tim Farrar notes that AST SpaceMobile still needs FCC approval [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}