Vodafone, in partnership with AST SpaceMobile, has completed the first video call over satellite using a normal 4G/5G smartphone. The call came from a remote location in Wales – which had never had high-speed cell connectivity before – and was between Vodafone engineer Rowan Chesmer and the CEO of Vodafone Group Margherita Della Valle.
This is symbolic, coming almost exactly 40 years after Britain’s first-ever mobile call in January 1985. Technology has progressed a lot since then and AST claims to have the “first and only” mobile broadband network in space that works with regular 4G and…
