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Satellites could end UK phone 'not spots', Vodafone says
Vodafone says the tech could lead to the elimination of "not spots", which cover an estimated 9% of the UK.
The company says the call - made from a mountain in Ceredigion, west Wales - is part of the process of adding satellite connectivity to its UK phone network by the end of the year, and across Europe in 2026. "The international astronomy community is concerned by the rapidly increasing number of satellites in low Earth orbit, which can contaminate astronomical images by leaving bright light streaks in them," the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark Sky told the BBC. "As well as being bright visually, satellites are relatively warm so shine in the infrared, and transmit radio signals down to Earth that are increasingly obscuring our view of the universe across several regions of the electromagnetic spectrum," she told the BBC.
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