{"id":48465,"date":"2025-09-09T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/capgemini-thales-and-thales-alenia-space-to-lead-french-d2d-project\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:03:53","slug":"capgemini-thales-and-thales-alenia-space-to-lead-french-d2d-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/capgemini-thales-and-thales-alenia-space-to-lead-french-d2d-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Capgemini, Thales, and Thales Alenia Space to Lead French D2D Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capgemini<\/strong>, <strong>Thales<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> have won a key direct-to-device (D2D) contract in France. The three companies have been selected by the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong> (CNES) as part of a government-backed call for projects under the France 2030 program to lead a demonstration of 5G D2D connectivity. The three companies announced the initiative on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The project named U DESERVE 5G will demonstrate the feasibility of direct communications between satellites and mobile devices or fixed terminals (5G direct to device, or D2D). A demonstrator satellite will be placed in LEO to test interoperability between terrestrial and non-terrestrial 5G networks. The project will use a set of scenarios to evaluate how smoothly devices can switch between satellite and terrestrial 5G coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The key technology for the project is a 5G satellite payload with an active antenna. It will enable voice calls and data transmission directly between the satellite and a test mobile device, without routing via a ground station. The demonstrator will include all components of the chain: test satellite, payload, NTN ground segment and test mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new 5G D2D project paves the way for Thales Alenia Space to provide high-speed coverage in areas not served by terrestrial networks, as well as emergency or continuity services in crisis situations. By leveraging its expertise in geostationary telecommunications and medium- and low-Earth orbit constellations, our company has played a key role in the standardization of 5G by satellite and is ideally positioned to support future large-scale 5G D2D projects,\u201d St\u00e9phane Anju\u00e8re, 5G Venture Leader of Thales Alenia Space, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capgemini, Thales and Thales Alenia Space have won a key direct-to-device (D2D) contract in France. The three companies have been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) as part of a government-backed call for projects under the France 2030 program to lead a demonstration of 5G D2D connectivity. The three companies announced the initiative on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}