{"id":939553,"date":"2025-06-19T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939553"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:20:24","slug":"vi-partners-with-ast-spacemobile-for-providing-satcom-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/vi-partners-with-ast-spacemobile-for-providing-satcom-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Vi partners with AST SpaceMobile for providing satcom services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Wednesday said that it has partnered with AST SpaceMobile, a US-based satellite communications company and rival to Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, to launch satellite-based mobile services directly on smartphones across the country. <\/p>\n<p>The company said that this strategic alliance aims to bring seamless mobile connectivity to areas currently beyond the reach of traditional terrestrial networks. Vodafone Idea will leverage AST SpaceMobile\u2019s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology to provide direct-to-device cellular service without the need for specialised hardware or infrastructure, offering standard 4G and 5G voice and data connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Wednesday said that it has partnered with AST SpaceMobile, a US-based satellite communications company and rival to Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, to launch satellite-based mobile services directly on smartphones across the country. The company said that this strategic alliance aims to bring seamless mobile connectivity to areas currently beyond the reach of traditional terrestrial networks. Vodafone Idea will leverage AST SpaceMobile\u2019s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology to provide direct-to-device cellular service without the need for specialised hardware or infrastructure, offering standard 4G and 5G voice and data connectivity.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939553","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=939553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}