How AST SpaceMobile Plans to Beam Broadband From Space to Your Phone

Watch journalist Fareed Zakaria interview Abel Avellan — AST SpaceMobile’s Founder, Chairman and CEO — about the satellite internet company’s origins, progress, and future. AST SpaceMobile demonstrated the world’s first-ever voice calls and broadband internet connectivity from satellites in low Earth orbit directly to everyday cell phones. The company is pioneering the technology, called direct-to-device (or direct-to-cell), in order to connect the unconnected all over the globe.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 An early interest in space
01:19 Abel's first satellite startup
02:47 The start of AST SpaceMobile
03:25 Why cellular broadband from space?
05:01 AST SpaceMobile's world-first progress
06:36 How SpaceMobile could transform connectivity
07:58 "We can really affect a billion lives"

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