{"id":53469,"date":"2023-05-11T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/att-files-with-fcc-to-lease-spectrum-to-ast-spacemobile\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:20:35","slug":"att-files-with-fcc-to-lease-spectrum-to-ast-spacemobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/att-files-with-fcc-to-lease-spectrum-to-ast-spacemobile\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Files With FCC to Lease Spectrum to AST SpaceMobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>AT&amp;T <\/b>has filed with the <b>FCC<\/b> to lease spectrum to <b>AST SpaceMobile<\/b> for satellite direct-to-cell service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In filings to the FCC on Thursday, AT&amp;T notified the commission it has a long-term spectrum lease agreement with AST SpaceMobile to lease certain 850 MHz cellular A and B block spectrum and certain lower 700 MHz B and C block spectrum. This agreement will let AST SpaceMobile use AT&amp;T\u2019s spectrum to offer satellite direct-to-cell service, also known as supplemental coverage from space, because it supplements AT&amp;T\u2019s network.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after AST SpaceMobile recently reported successful two-way voice calls to unmodified smartphones using the BlueWalker 3 satellite \u2014 a critical milestone for the company\u2019s test satellite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile\u2019s business model is to work with mobile network operators and use their spectrum to provide satellite-to-cell service, allowing the MNOs to expand their networks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T and AST SpaceMobile asked the FCC to waive certain requirements like a blanket earth station license, arguing the service is in the public\u2019s interest. The company intends to provide broadband access directly to AT&amp;T customer phones. AT&amp;T argued to the FCC that \u201crather than displacing terrestrial network facilities nationwide, AST\u2019s coverage will be complementary to AT&amp;T\u2019s extensive terrestrial network coverage.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T has filed with the FCC to lease spectrum to AST SpaceMobile for satellite direct-to-cell service.&nbsp; In filings to the FCC on Thursday, AT&amp;T notified the commission it has a long-term spectrum lease agreement with AST SpaceMobile to lease certain 850 MHz cellular A and B block spectrum and certain lower 700 MHz B and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51198,"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-53469","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\/53469"}],"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=53469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}