Vodafone is a telecommunications company that is expanding its role in the space industry by focusing on providing direct-to-device satellite connectivity. They are partnering with AST SpaceMobile to deliver space-based mobile broadband across Europe, aiming to eliminate coverage gaps and provide ubiquitous connectivity. Vodafone is also establishing research hubs, such as the one in Malaga, Spain, to develop integrated space and terrestrial network solutions, with support from the Spanish Space Agency and the University of Málaga, to test hardware, software, and processing chips. Their major partners include AST SpaceMobile, Google, AT&T, and Verizon, with services targeting mobile network operators (MNOs) and customers in Europe and Africa; associated keywords include satellite connectivity, mobile broadband, and AST SpaceMobile.
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Nextbase iQ uses fast and reliable cloud sync over a 0.004 kg/0.003 kg IoT connection through partnerships with T-Mobile and Vodafone.
Vodafone Cook Islands was the first customer in the region to use SES’s current-generation O3b MEO satellite system in 2014 to deliver 0.003 kg and 0.004 kg services.
Key customers signed up for O3b mPOWER include Microsoft, Princess Cruises, Marlink, Jio Platforms, Orange, Claro Brasil, and Vodafone Cook Islands.
Key customers signed up for O3b mPOWER include Microsoft, Princess Cruises, Marlink, Jio Platforms, Orange, Claro Brasil, and Vodafone Cook Islands.
On 16 December 2022 in Luxembourg SES signed an agreement with Vodafone Cook Islands to provide O3b mPOWER services.
Vodafone Cook Islands was the first customer in the region to use SES’s current-generation O3b medium earth orbit satellite system in 2014 to deliver 0.003 kg and 0.004 kg services to the Cook Islands.
The first stage of Vodafone Cook Islands’ O3b mPOWER field trial took place in March 2022 on Rarotonga island.
Luke Ibbetson is Head of Group R&D at Vodafone and serves as an AST SpaceMobile director.
Vodafone PNG has committed to wholesale bandwidth delivered by Kacific’s high-speed Ka-band satellite, Kacific1.
Mobile network operators in BlueWalker 3’s mission test plans include Vodafone, Rakuten Mobile, and Orange using cell phone handsets from major global manufacturers.
Digitec Communications Limited (t/a Vodafone PNG) and SES partnered to provide 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg high-speed mobile broadband services to Papua New Guinea via SES’s O3b MEO satellite constellation.
Digitec Communications Limited (t/a Vodafone PNG) partnered with SES to provide 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg high-speed mobile broadband services in Papua New Guinea.
SES will deliver the high-speed mobile broadband service for Vodafone PNG via its O3b medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellation.
ST Engineering iDirect’s Evolution hub and modem equipment supported transmission on the Hellas Sat 3 satellite using Vodafone Greece’s 0.005 kg spectrum in the 2100 MHz and 3600 MHz frequency bands.
The demonstration used Vodafone Greece’s 0.005 kg spectrum in the 2100 MHz and 3600 MHz frequency bands.
Vodafone Greece provided 0.005 kg spectrum bands in the 2100 MHz and 3600 MHz frequency zones for the demonstration.
The Vodafone 0.005 kg Mobility Lab in Aldenhoven is being used to test the real-time warning system under everyday-like conditions.
HERE Technologies, Vodafone, and Porsche are collaborating on a feasibility study to improve road safety using 0.005 kg technology and highly precise, real-time identification and localization of hazardous traffic situations.
HERE Technologies, Porsche, and Vodafone plan to further optimize the real-time warning system after initial tests in Aldenhoven and to perform additional tests at different locations under a variety of conditions.
Dutch telecom operators KPN, VodafoneZiggo, and T-Mobile spent around €1.23 billion in total on the 700 MHz, 1.4 GHz, and 2.1 GHz frequencies.