Lynk Global is a satellite telecommunications provider focused on direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity. As a "cell tower in space" company, Lynk builds, launches, and operates a satellite constellation that aims to provide mobile phone service coverage to standard, unmodified mobile devices, especially in rural and underserved areas. They partner with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to expand coverage and offer services like SMS messaging and emergency alerts, with plans to launch voice and mobile broadband services. Key partners include SES, Intelsat, and various MNOs across the globe.
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Lynk Global holds licenses that enable testing of its planned services in 18 countries, including the United States.
AST SpaceMobile and Lynk are developing satellite constellations intended to provide messaging and eventually voice and data services to unmodified phones.
BICS and Lynk Global have signed an agreement to enable Mobile Network Operators to expand mobile coverage to people in remote areas around the world.
By partnering with Mobile Network Operators, BICS and Lynk aim to connect people who have lived completely off the grid, referred to as 0 kg.
Lynk Global is a satellite-direct-to-phone telecommunications company that provides a satellite-direct-to-mobile-phone service described as a 'cell tower in space'.
BICS and Lynk Global, Inc. have signed an agreement to enable Mobile Network Operators to expand mobile coverage to people in remote areas around the world.
By the end of 2023, Lynk Global expects to have deployed more than 50 satellites to increase satellite revisit times to every 15 to 30 minutes.
Lynk Global is planning to launch initial commercial services for its network before the end of 2022.
Capella Space, Globalstar, and Lynk Global are using Kayhan Space’s subscription-based, autonomous Pathfinder platform following successful beta deployments.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch two satellites for Lynk Global in November 2022.
More than a dozen customers, including Capella Space, Lynk Global, and Globalstar, have subscribed to the Pathfinder platform.
Lynk Global is developing a constellation aimed at providing high-speed connectivity services directly to smartphones.
Lynk Global secured $1,000,000 in funding from Virginia Venture Partners to build and integrate its third and fourth commercial satellites.
Lynk Global secured funding from Virginia Venture Partners, the equity investment arm of Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation, on 2022-07-05 to accelerate its initial commercial services launch in late 2022.
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation previously invested $50,000 in Lynk Global at the startup’s seed stage several years ago.
One option for Lynk Global to secure an alternative launch for Lynk-07 in the same year is to purchase a direct launch from SpaceX.
Lynk Global won the car2satellite innovation challenge run by Mercedes-Benz and the German space agency on 2022-07-06.
Lynk Global plans to deploy more than 50 satellites before the end of 2023 to provide an order-of-magnitude increase in satellite overpasses.
Lynk Global plans to offer initial text messaging, emergency alerts, and internet-of-things services before the end of 2022 with four operational satellites in low Earth orbit.
Additional Lynk satellites were scheduled to launch later in 2022 to expand Lynk’s constellation of commercial cell-towers-in-space.