It’s moving towards a “single network future.”
It’s laying out the framework it’ll use to regulate the industry, and taking public comment on it.The Federal Communications Commission is starting to set up the legal framework that would let companies provide satellite service directly to cell phones, like SpaceX, T-Mobile, AST Spacemobile, and Lynk.
The main focus of the proposal is the satellite companies that are planning on working with existing cell carriers, and using parts of the spectrum traditionally reserved for standards like 5G. The benefit to this approach is that it allows phones to talk to satellites without the need for any additional hardware — T-Mobilethat it’ll be using SpaceX’s satellites to let people text from areas where there isn’t any coverage.
The FCC’s vision for the future is ambitious. It’s hoping for a “single network future,” according to a statement from chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, where devices will bounce between using signals from cell towers and satellites without the user noticing. “We won’t need to think about what network, where, and what services are available. Connections will just work everywhere, all the time,” she says.
This isn’t the first time the FCC has worked to get satellites talking directly to phones. As companies like AST Spacemobile and Lynk have been testing their satellite-to-phone systems, the regulator has
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