AT&T and T-Mobile are in a heated race to space

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SpaceX (T-Mobile's partner) and AST SpaceMobile (AT&T's partner) are both rushing to launch satellites that can connect to customers' existing phones. But cash and federal approvals are just some of the problems they're facing.

Read more: https://www.lightreading.com/satelli...-race-to-space


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[techfranz]

It sounds like a good kind of umbrella coverage for the network. No signal but clear site of the sky? You can still send a text and eventually voice and data.

I think there will be strength though in having mixes of communication mediums like Fiber, Macros, Small Cells, Microwave, Low Band, High Band (is that a thing?) etc…

I still want every foot of desert and Wilderness covered in 5G Macro sites, but no people, no roads no coverage is the conventional wisdom and it makes sense.


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[PaulCrawhorne]

Out at sea far from shore is the last frontier

[cr0w]

cool, pretty soon I can have signal in the moon and mars.. when I visit relatives.

[clonehappy]

I guess soon the only option to be off the grid will be to leave your phone at home and ride a bicycle.

Until those get regulated into having GPS and OnStar with a sensor to lock the wheels and call the Sheriff on you if you are too wobbly.


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[@TheRealDanny]

Who’s going to win? SpaceX or SpaceMobile?


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