{"id":55671,"date":"2022-03-28T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orange-agrees-to-test-ast-spacemobiles-network\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:04:00","slug":"orange-agrees-to-test-ast-spacemobiles-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orange-agrees-to-test-ast-spacemobiles-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Agrees to Test AST SpaceMobile\u2019s Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s leading telcos <strong>Orange<\/strong> is teaming up with <strong>AST SpaceMobile<\/strong> to test its space-based cellular broadband network. The two companies announced the non-binding MoU on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Orange will test AST SpaceMobile\u2019s service in one African country, following AST SpaceMobile\u2019s planned launch of its BlueWalker 3 test satellite that is designed to communicate directly with cell phones via 3GPP standard frequencies. The companies said this announcement paves the way for discussions on a potential agreement to serve Orange subscribers through AST SpaceMobile\u2019s planned network of BlueBird satellites. Orange has more than 220 million mobile customers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAST SpaceMobile\u2019s satellite constellation could revolutionize how mobile subscribers connect. We look forward to working with AST SpaceMobile to explore expanding Orange\u2019s service offerings to geographic regions where it is difficult to build out cellular infrastructure,\u201d Jean-Luc Vuillemin, Executive Vice President of Orange International Networks, said in a statement. Vuillemin recently spoke with Via Satellite about Orange\u2019s partnerships with satellite providers.<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile is working to develop a cellular broadband network in space in which satellites communicate directly with mobile phones. The company has agreements with other telcos including Vodafone and Rakuten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s leading telcos Orange is teaming up with AST SpaceMobile to test its space-based cellular broadband network. The two companies announced the non-binding MoU on March 25. Orange will test AST SpaceMobile\u2019s service in one African country, following AST SpaceMobile\u2019s planned launch of its BlueWalker 3 test satellite that is designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55221,"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-55671","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\/55671"}],"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=55671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}