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- 'Storm-Ready WiFi,' a premium product from Comcast that residential subs can buy for $7 per month over 36 months, surfaces as network reliability and ARPU become more important to the cable op's broadband story. ow.ly/Bc9S104RcI0
- Comcast Full Duplex DOCSIS trial pumps out 4-Gig symmetrical speeds dlvr.it/RyCkRK
- New FCC filings show AST and AT&T's FirstNet are pushing ahead with their plan to expand first-responder cell coverage under FirstNet with AST's satellites. Read more on Light Reading: bit.ly/4o2xzRi
- AST SpaceMobile completes voice call from Texas to Japan over AT&T spectrum, using AST SpaceMobile's BW3 satellite. The call was made with an unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone. #pressrelease ow.ly/uuq4104ERl2
- AST SpaceMobile completes voice call from Texas to Japan over AT&T spectrum, using AST SpaceMobile's BW3 satellite. The call was made with an unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone. #pressrelease
- SpaceX and Apple are currently offering text messages from space. But AST SpaceMobile hopes to leapfrog those companies with speedy, spaceborne data services starting later this year. Read more on Light Reading: bit.ly/4hdz8ae
- 'I can carry any cell phone, and it can be connected to the #satellite network? What a terrific opportunity,' said @ATT's Chris Sambar in an @AST_SpaceMobile video, a signal of support for the startup. Read more on Light Reading: bit.ly/3Wetds2
- AST SpaceMobile reported that it was able to connect a 5G call from AT&T's network in Hawaii to Vodafone's network in Spain using its satellite. #pressrelease ow.ly/wrtb104UL2e
- AT&T is looking to give startup AST SpaceMobile a lease to some of its 850MHz A and B Block spectrum as well as some of its lower 700MHz B and C Block spectrum. Read more on Light Reading: bit.ly/41zcots
- 'It's going to be a year of really extensive testing and really beginning to finalize the commercial model and the go-to-market strategy,' said JR Wilson, an AT&T exec working with AST SpaceMobile. #MWC24 Read more on Light Reading: bit.ly/49zWgwD
