AST SpaceMobile
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The first and only space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones. Eliminating coverage gaps to enable billions of people globally to stay connected.
Midland, TX
Joined December 2020
For U.S. emergency services, agencies, and the military, the stakes couldn't be higher for having broadband connectivity in rural or remote regions. See how AST SpaceMobile aims to close crucial connectivity gaps for Americans who put their lives on the line. 👇▶️📶#5G
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A space-age future for cellular broadband is coming 🤳🌌 We are building the first and only satellite network that connects everyday smartphones directly to high-speed internet to eliminate zones and connect the unconnected. Press play to learn more 👇📽️👀📶#5G
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Breaking new ground in connectivity - First video call in Europe to unmodified standard smartphones on our newly launched satellites! 🌍📱📶#5G. - Historic first space-based video call in Europe, made by Vodafone engineer to Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle. - Mobile broadband.
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We did it! 🚀 The BlueBird satellites have successfully launched into orbit. This is a historic moment for AST SpaceMobile and a major step forward in our mission to provide space-based cellular connectivity globally. Thank you to everyone who supported us on this journey.
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The first-ever commercial streamed to a cell phone from space! Watch an #ASTSpaceMobile engineer play @ATT's new ad featuring our technology, with @BenStiller + @JordanSpieth, using her smartphone connected to our test satellite – BlueWalker 3 – while it flew over a remote region
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Abel Avellan – #ASTSpaceMobile’s founder, Chairman, and CEO – gave a talk at the #MWC24 booth of @ATT, one of our strategic partners and investors. Watch below to hear how the space-based cellular broadband network that we are building could change a billion lives. 👇👀🎥📶#5G
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Our BlueBirds are ready to take flight! 🚀 These groundbreaking satellites are now encapsulated in the rocket, ready to launch and revolutionize global connectivity. Stay tuned for updates on the launch countdown. #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueBirdLaunch
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Great news! #BlueWalker3 successfully reached orbit and our engineers are talking to the spacecraft. Stay tuned for future updates as the mission progresses.
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AST SpaceMobile Successfully Completes Unfolding of First Five Commercial Satellites in Low Earth Orbit
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History is unfolding! We've deployed #BlueWalker3's 693-square-foot array, which is now the largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit. Read more about this important milestone here:
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AST SpaceMobile Announces First Five Commercial Satellites Completed Final Assembly and Ready for Shipment the First Week of August
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AST SpaceMobile Secures Initial Contract with Space Development Agency (SDA) as a Prime Contractor to the United States Government
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AST SpaceMobile Announces Agreement for Long-Term Access to up to 45 MHz of Premium Lower Mid-Band Spectrum in the United States for Direct-to-Device Satellite Applications.
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AST SpaceMobile Announces Definitive Commercial Agreement with Vodafone Through 2034
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Watch the unfolding of the largest-ever commercial communication arrays in low Earth orbit, BlueBirds 1-5. Getting ready to operate and provide commercial services! 📶#5G ▶️. @ATT @Verizon @Google @Bell @RakutenGroup @VodafoneGroup #AmericanTower .#Innovation #Connectivity
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We've successfully controlled our #BlueWalker3 test satellite in orbit for 3 weeks via several ground stations. 📡 We plan to unfold the array in the second half of October during optimal conditions. On-board cameras are now operational — look at the view! 📷🌏☀️ Stay tuned.
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What a year it has been! Thanks to our team, partners, and supporters, 2024 was a year of unprecedented milestones. Watch the highlights and see what is next for AST SpaceMobile.📶#5G.#ASTS #SatelliteToMobile #DirectToCell #DirectToDevice
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AST SpaceMobile’s Commercial Satellites Arrive at Cape Canaveral For Upcoming Launch
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FCC Approves AST SpaceMobile Launch of First Commercial Satellites, Each the Largest-Ever Communications Array to be Deployed Commercially in Low Earth Orbit
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T-29 hours to the launch of the BlueBird 1-5 mission! Join our live webcast as we count down to liftoff at 4:52am EDT on Sept. 12 – and learn how we're building the world's first space-based cellular broadband network: #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueBirdLaunch.
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Imagine staying connected anywhere, wherever you go. Our upcoming launch of BlueBird satellites is the first step to bringing space-based cellular broadband service to the most remote corners of the world. Watch our latest video to learn more! ▶️🚀📶#5G.
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Ahead of schedule, see photo from last night! The first BlueBird is getting ready to operate. At 700 sq ft in area, our BlueBirds are the largest-ever commercial communications arrays in low Earth orbit, specially designed for space-based cellular broadband to everyday
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🚀 Congratulations to @blueorigin on the successful launch of #NewGlenn!.With the capacity to carry up to 8 of our #BlueBird satellites in a single launch, this heavy-lift rocket is one more road to space for our next-generation Block 2 #BlueBird satellites, each at 2,400 sq. ft.
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Heads up! We’ve made the world's first space-based cellular voice calls directly to everyday, unmodified smartphones. Thanks to @ATT, @RakutenGroup, @VodafoneGroup and other testing partners for helping #ASTSpaceMobile make history. Read more here:
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AST SpaceMobile Announces Launch Services Agreements to Enable Continuous Space-Based Cellular Broadband Service Coverage for the United States, Europe, Japan, the U.S. Government, and Other Strategic Markets Globally.
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Live Webcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 1-5 Mission Launch
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Witness the historic launch of our first five BlueBird satellites! 🚀. From encapsulation in a rocket fairing to delivery into low Earth orbit, relive the excitement of this monumental milestone in our mission to connect the unconnected. #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueBirdLaunch
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AST SpaceMobile Provides Interim Business Update to Confirm Upcoming Orbital Launch and Warrant Redemption
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AST SpaceMobile has won the Icon Award - Emerging Space Company of the Year by @SpaceNews_Inc .Back in 2017, we set out to connect the unconnected. Today, we have pioneered space-based cellular broadband, achieved multiple industry-firsts, and deployed the first 6 largest
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AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Announce Plans to Target 100 Percent Geographical Coverage of the Continental United States from Space on Premium 850 MHz Cellular Spectrum
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Breaking news: Another world-first achievement for #ASTSpaceMobile! Using @ATT cellular spectrum, we connected everyday smartphones to our BlueWalker 3 test satellite and recorded 4G LTE download speeds of >10 Mbps. Read more about this historic feat here:
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AST SpaceMobile Offers Retail Shareholders a Chance to Attend the BlueBird 1-5 Launch
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Working together with @ATT engineers as we get ready for the launch of our first five commercial satellites! 📶#5G.#ATT $ASTS #ASTSpaceMobile #SatelliteToMobile #DirectToDevice
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As #ASTSpaceMobile continues to build the world's first space-based cellular broadband network in 2024, let’s review what we accomplished in 2023. We pioneered patented direct-to-device connectivity using our #BlueWalker3 test satellite, accomplishing a number of historic firsts:
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It's a countdown to launch! 🚀 The Falcon 9 rocket with our BlueBird 1-5 satellites is now vertical at SLC-40, Cape Canaveral. The launch window opens at 4:52 AM EDT today. Stay tuned for updates as we get closer to liftoff. #ASTSpaceMobile
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Tune into the podcast "Cellular Space Race and What it Means for Public Safety" from the @FirstNetGov to explore and listen to experts discussing @ASTSpaceMobile’s groundbreaking space-based cellular broadband technology, and its potential for public safety.
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No matter how far off-green your swing might take you, #ASTSpaceMobile's planned satellites would certainly make it easier to get live pointers from a friend. (Try a video call with @JordanSpieth next time, @BenStiller!) 🏌️📶#5G @ATT @TheMasters
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The FCC has granted an experimental license allowing #ASTSpaceMobile to test BlueWalker 3 satellite direct-to-cell phone connectivity in the United States. Read more: #5G
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AST SpaceMobile Announces New Contract Award with United States Government Through Prime Contractor
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Great conversation on @BloombergTV today between @CarolineHydeTV and @AbelAvellan, #ASTSpaceMobile's founder, Chairman, and CEO, about @Verizon's $100 million investment and strategic partnership. Watch the clip below 👇▶️📶#5G. #ASTSpaceMobile #SpaceMobileRevolution
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Great news! Our BlueWalker 3 test satellite has arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Teams are now working to prepare the spacecraft for a planned launch in early to mid-September. Read more here: #ASTSpaceMobile
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The new @FCC rules for connecting cell phones from space marks a victory for roughly 24 million Americans without broadband, and anyone looking for an end to dead zones. Supplemental Coverage from Space, or SCS, will be a game-changing framework for expanding coverage in the
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AST SpaceMobile's 5G cellular broadband from space, directly to everyday smartphones, has been named the 2023 Broadband Innovation of the Year by @BestMobileTech 🏆 .@ATT @VodafoneGroup 🤠🇺🇸📶#5G.
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It's time! 🚀 Our #BlueWalker3 test satellite is scheduled for liftoff at 9:10pm EDT on Sat. Sept. 10, from @NASAKennedy's Launch Complex 39A. We're hosting a live YouTube webcast starting ~8pm EDT on launch day. Subscribe to get notified when we go live:
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We're pleased to announce signing a Space Act Agreement with @NASA. The document formalizes a commitment between #ASTSpaceMobile and #NASA to share information to help safeguard low Earth orbit. Read more:
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AST SpaceMobile CEO Publishes Letter to Partners, Shareholders, and Future Space-Based Cellular Broadband Network Users
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This just in: We have signed a multi-launch agreement with @SpaceX! 🚀 The agreement covers the launch of the first BlueBird satellite and provides a framework for future launches. For more on our plans to eliminate today’s connectivity gaps 👉
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Proud to support AT&T, public safety’s network partner with FirstNet®. During on-site testing at AST SpaceMobile’s Midland facility, we successfully completed tests simulating how direct-to-device LEO satellite services could help support public safety’s mission in the future
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In the last 12 months, #ASTSpaceMobile filed 500+ patent and patent-pending claims — taking it to a total of 3,100!.Our IP portfolio kicked off in 2017, when founder @AbelAvellan, together with his Chief Scientist, filed for one of the company's first patents. We invented the
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AST SpaceMobile Welcomes Chris Sambar, Head of Network, AT&T, to Board of Directors
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AST SpaceMobile to Provide Quarterly Business Update on August 14, 2024
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This is an #ASTSpaceMobile gateway being installed on a Nairobi rooftop by @SafaricomPLC and @VodafoneGroup. 📡🇰🇪. Such gateways will seamlessly route calls and broadband cellular data between AST SpaceMobile's planned satellites and the core networks of mobile network operators.
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At AST SpaceMobile, we’ve powered up our own assembly lines to mass-manufacture space-grade solar panels. This not only helps scale production and tightly control quality, but also helps reduce the cost of our spacecraft by ~10-fold compared to traditional methods. 😎☀️🦾 📶#5G
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AST SpaceMobile applauds the @FCC's leadership in advancing space-based cellular broadband for all Americans. The detailed ruling, following the notice of Proposed Rulemaking in March 2023, includes frequencies key for #ASTSpaceMobile: 600, 700, & 800 Mhz. This paves the way
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Welcome to our Site 1 and Site 2 satellite manufacturing facilities in Midland, Texas! Join us for a quick virtual tour 👀👇🧵[1/]
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Watch the President of Network @ATT, Chris Sambar, discuss the opportunity of integrating with AST SpaceMobile's space-based cellular technology in our new #PartnerProfile video. 🎥 #5G.
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The only company ever to deliver cellular broadband from space directly to everyday smartphones is #ASTSpaceMobile, but we’re just getting started…. Around the world there are more than 12.1 billion cellular connections to things like cars, vehicles, boats, drones, watches,
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NEW VIDEO: Watch journalist @FareedZakaria interview @AbelAvellan — Founder, Chairman & CEO of #ASTSpaceMobile — about the only company that's connected everyday smartphones directly to broadband internet using a satellite in space. 😮🤳🛰️📶#5G
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The great nation of Japan, a country with many remote islands and mountainous regions, and a high risk of natural disasters, will greatly benefit with broadband cellular access everywhere by AST SpaceMobile's planned network. AST SpaceMobile and @RakutenGroup have been working
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Getting high-quality hardware at scale means making it yourself. Shown here is part of our manufacturing process for Microns, the building blocks of BlueBirds — satellites designed to provide space-based cellular broadband directly to everyday mobile phones. 🤳🌌📶#5G
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AST SpaceMobile ASIC Chip Enters Tape-Out Phase in Collaboration with TSMC
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We've designed #BlueWalker3 to connect ordinary mobile phones from space — a key step toward building the world's first cellular broadband network in space. Learn about our upcoming test mission in a new video: #ASTSpaceMobile.
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We plan to launch #BlueWalker3 — a satellite designed to test cellular broadband communications directly with standard mobile phones, from space — during the week of August 15, 2022. Read more about our plans here:
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The @FCC's proposed ruling makes available 200+ MHz of spectrum for satellite direct-to-device networks. This would greatly benefit the implementation of a true space-based cellular broadband network that shares terrestrial spectrum and helps bring 5G coverage to every corner of.
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See and learn more about our #BlueWalker3 satellite at #MWC23. Look up. You can’t miss it.👀. Come by our #ASTSpaceMobile booths with @nokia and @VodafoneGroup.
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AST SpaceMobile and @fairwinds_tech jointly announce a teaming agreement to explore potential opportunities with #military and law enforcement agencies. 🪖 🚔 🤝.
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Big news for connectivity in Brazil! With challenging geography leaving millions of people without cell coverage, we support regulator @AnatelGovBR's decision to create a "regulatory sandbox." The initiative facilitates the testing of #ASTSpaceMobile's space-based cellular
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A new era of mobile connectivity is coming: Whenever you need it, wherever you are. 📶#5G #AbelAvellan #ASTS #satellite #SatelliteToMobile #DirectToCell #DirectToDevice #quotes
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AST SpaceMobile Welcomes Telecom Industry Veteran Johan Wibergh to Board of Directors
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We welcome continued @FCC support for #space, innovation, technology, #5G, cellular broadband, and US leadership in cellular coverage from orbit. #ASTSpaceMobile's mission is to provide space-based cellular broadband nearly everywhere directly to mobile phones.
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AST SpaceMobile provides an update on its ongoing space-based cellular broadband satellite programs. 📢 Read more in the press release:
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AST SpaceMobile partnered with @vodafone_es today to talk with the press about our space-based cellular broadband technology, flying in low Earth orbit today.🎙️ #5G.
🔴 Bienvenidos al futuro: la primera y única red de banda ancha móvil por satélite. Desde Vodafone y @AST_SpaceMobile estamos listos para probar los servicios voz y datos directamente desde el espacio e impulsar la conectividad por satélite en zonas rurales, remotas y marítimas
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We had a blast at our #ASTSpaceMobile partner event!. Thank you for joining us @ATT, American Tower, @RakutenGroup, @VodafoneGroup, @Nokia and many others at #MWC23.
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We feel the excitement about #ASTSpaceMobile and #BlueWalker3 at #MWC23!. Our Chief Strategy Officer, @scottwisniews, talked about how #ASTSpaceMobile plans to transform how the world connects @RakutenGroup's booth @MWCHub. #5G
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AST SpaceMobile's Abel Avellan Appointed Commissioner to the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission $ASTS #ASTS #ASTSpaceMobile @AbelAvellan @UNBBCom #UnitedNations #Broadband #SatelliteToMobile #DirectToCell #DirectToDevice.
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This weekend, we successfully launched #BlueWalker3 into orbit!🚀 We're on a mission to eliminate connectivity gaps faced by more than 5 billion mobile subscribers. Read more details about the status of our test satellite here: #ASTSpaceMobile.
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AST SpaceMobile invented and pioneered space-based cellular broadband technology, and it shows in the lineup of strategic partners and investors supporting us at #MWC24. We've also signed agreements and understandings with more than 40 cellular service providers around the
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Meet @UNBBCom Commissioner & CEO of #ASTSpaceMobile, @AbelAvellan:. "In today's interconnected world access to cellular #broadband has become an essential lifeline. We must remove the barriers to do all we can to achieve #universalconnectivity & accelerate #digitaltransformation"
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Watch our #BlueWalker3 test satellite get built, assembled, launched, deployed, and unfolded in this new video:
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On Thursday at 8am EST @AbelAvellan will join @SIA_satellite president Tom Stroup for a satellite industry leaders fireside chat in Crystal City, Virginia. Abel will share #ASTSpaceMobile's story and speak about how we are building a robust and resilient space-based broadband
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Listen to @ChrisSambar, Head of Network at @ATT, and @AbelAvellan, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of #ASTSpaceMobile, share insights about space-based cellular broadband with @BBCWorldService at #MWC24. Discover how we’re collaborating toward our mission of connecting the
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We recently announced an important funding milestone, including strategic investments by world leaders in the wireless ecosystem. To learn more, read a letter that Abel Avellan, our founder, Chairman and CEO, recently issued to $ASTS shareholders. 📜👇. You can see it
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John Stankey, CEO of @ATT, recently spoke about how mobile users want ubiquitous connectivity and why the company is working with #ASTSpaceMobile to help achieve that goal. Watch part of his @FastCompany Innovation Festival talk here: 🇺🇸📶#5G #fcfestival.
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In 2023, we proved broadband from space directly to everyday mobile phones is a bold new future of communication. Working together with strategic partners like @VodafoneGroup as we prepare for the launch of #ASTSpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites! 🤝📶#5G.$ASTS.
From satellite communications to the next developments in OpenRAN, the global Vodafone team has achieved a lot this year. Take a look at some of our highlights from 2023 ⤵️
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Want to hear the inside story of #ASTSpaceMobile partnering with @ATT on creating the world's first and only space-based cellular broadband network?. Join AST SpaceMobile's @AbelAvellan and AT&T's @ChrisSambar for a fireside chat by @Via_Satellite's Mark Holmes at #SATShow 2024
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"There's nothing like democratizing knowledge and information for billions. That's the core of what we're doing," @AbelAvellan recently told @CNBC's #ManifestSpace. Listen to the full episode below 👇 Cautionary statements about forward-looking info here:
LISTEN NOW: @AST_SpaceMobile has made history with the first-ever phone call from space to everyday mobile devices using its prototype satellite. Listen to that conversation with Chairman and CEO @AbelAvellan on #ManifestSpace with @MorganLBrennan here:
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Last week at AfricaCom 2023, #ASTSpaceMobile was pleased to welcome @FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez and FCC Head of Space Julie Kearney to a demo at @Nokia's booth (background illustration = our BlueWalker 3 test satellite). Thanks to both for making the journey! 📶#5G
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We're proud of our collaboration with @ATT and 40+ other innovative MNOs making telecommunications history with us! 🤝 This unprecedented milestone proved that 5G cellular broadband from space, directly to everyday phones, not only works but is poised to change the world. 🇺🇸📶#5G.
We released $T Q3 2023 earnings. Check out our results and other materials here:
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Prepare for lift-off! 🚀 We’re launching our BlueWalker 3 test satellite with @SpaceX. The mission is expected to depart Cape Canaveral, Florida, in March 2022. #ASTSpaceMobile #5G #space
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These panels are called Microns, and they are the building blocks of our satellites. Mass-producing Microns will allow us to make our large satellites modularly and cost-effectively. Stay tuned for more video of our operations this week! 👀🚀 #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueWalker3
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We are proud to lead this charge towards a future free from dead zones. Together, we are shaping the future of connectivity!. $ASTS #ASTS #PioneeringConnectivity #FutureIsConnected #Innovation #SpaceInnovation #SatelliteToMobile #DirectToCell.
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For the first time, we're taking the public inside our satellite manufacturing operation. Follow Chairman & CEO @AbelAvellan as he shows @JasonSilva hardware designed to connect cell phones to broadband from space 👀🎥🚀 #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueWalker3 #5G.
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AST SpaceMobile Announces Participation in Upcoming Conferences:. • Mobile World Congress.• 32nd Annual Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference.• 36th Annual ROTH Conference.• SATELLITE 2024. Read more:
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Today @AbelAvellan and Tom Stroup, President of @SIA_satellite, discussed how #ASTSpaceMobile's large phased array could enable new and resilient communications solutions — broadband from space directly to everyday cell phones — while also making way for new applications in
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