{"id":1024023,"date":"2026-07-28T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024023"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:31:36","slug":"amazon-eyes-2028-launch-for-direct-to-phone-satellite-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/amazon-eyes-2028-launch-for-direct-to-phone-satellite-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon eyes 2028 launch for direct-to-phone satellite network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As global satellite companies look beyond broadband internet, Amazon is now targeting the smartphone in your pocket. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite venture has proposed a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites that would beam voice, messaging and data services directly to smartphones, allowing users to stay connected in remote areas or during network outages. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon has sought approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy the network, with satellite launches expected to begin in 2028. The service will work in partnership with mobile network operators worldwide and use the mobile satellite spectrum of Globalstar, which Amazon agreed to acquire earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As global satellite companies look beyond broadband internet, Amazon is now targeting the smartphone in your pocket. The company&#8217;s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite venture has proposed a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites that would beam voice, messaging and data services directly to smartphones, allowing users to stay connected in remote areas or during network outages. Amazon has sought approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy the network, with satellite launches expected to begin in 2028. The service will work in partnership with mobile network operators worldwide and use the mobile satellite spectrum of Globalstar, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024044,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024023\/revisions\/1024044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}