AST SpaceMobile made the call on a Galaxy S22.
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AST SpaceMobile — a cellular satellite company backed by AT&T — has placed a satellite call over 5G, marking the “first ever” 5G connection between an unmodified smartphone and a satellite in space. To conduct the test, AST SpaceMobile used a Galaxy S22. It made the call on September 8th, 2023, from a wireless dead zone in Maui, Hawaii, with its recipient located in Madrid, Spain. AST SpaceMobile got the cell signal to its destination by leveraging its low Earth orbit test satellite, called BlueWalker 3 , and AT&T’s 5G spectrum. Vodafone, Nokia, and AT&T all validated the call.
phone call on AT&T’s 2G network. It later sent a 4G LTE signal from space that an ordinary phone managed to pick up, while also touting 10Mbps download speeds. However, AST SpaceMobile says it has since broken that download speed record by achieving a rate of around 14Mbps in a separate test. “Once again, we have achieved a significant technological advancement that represents a paradigm shift in access to information,” Abel Avellan, the CEO of AST SpaceMobile, says in a statement. “Since the launch of BW3, we have achieved full compatibility with phones made by all major manufacturers and support for 2G, 4G LTE, and now 5G.”
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