Vodafone taps America's AST SpaceMobile array to make first smartphone satellite call

Bogdan Hofbauer

Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Vodafone, one of Britain's big four cell network providers, conducted the country's first satellite video call using a mobile phone as part of an effort to get around the long-standing problem of "dead zones" where the signal from traditional cell towers is patchy or non-existent. The company said the space-based call with Android phones from a mountainside in west Wales between its engineers and Group CEO Margherita Della Valle on Wednesday was the first step in rolling out d

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