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AT&T gets FCC clearance to test satellite-direct-to-phone technology
The special temporary authorization from the FCC means AST SpaceMobile can start beaming communications from its BlueBird satellites, which it launched in September.
The FCC today issued a special temporary authority to AST SpaceMobile, giving the company until May 30 to test the BlueBird satellites using AT&T’s network spectrum. AST SpaceMobile launched and deployed the five BlueBird satellites in Earth’s orbit last fall with the goal of delivering high-speed internet to consumer phones on the ground. But the approval represents one step in its ongoing journey to use dozens of BlueBird satellites to beam high-speed data to phones across the globe.
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