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Viasat, EchoStar and Iridium hint at cellular-to-satellite interest

Companies like SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile, Globalstar and Lynk Global have been loudly discussing the possibility of connecting regular smartphones directly to their satellites. Indeed, Lynk recently boasted of $2.3 billion in commercial contracts with almost two dozen mobile network operators for direct cellular-to-satellite services. But they aren’t the only ones that expect to play in the market. Executives from […]
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Motorola Solutions “likely” to exit LTE-based ESN in UK early, company says

Motorola Solutions expects to “exit” its role as a key vendor for the Emergency Services Network (ESN)—the much-delayed public-safety LTE system in the United Kingdom (UK)—in the near future while continuing to oppose a UK watchdog’s findings that its Airwave TETRA service is anticompetitive, company officials said. Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said the company’s […]

In the race to space, Bullitt eschews proprietary approaches

Bullitt, a UK-based maker of hardened Android smartphones, said it will leverage 3GPP-based 5G technology standards in its efforts to connect its forthcoming smartphones directly to satellites. That, according to Bullitt’s co-founder Richard Wharton, makes the company different from Apple, which recently announced that its new iPhone 14 can connect directly to satellites. “It’s a very different […]
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