Anyone who has ever been to the roaming hell of non-EU countries knows: mobile telephony ends where your own provider does not offer cheap roaming packages for use by the provider in the host country. Even that doesn’t help in remote areas with blind spots. Communicating anywhere in the world via satellite would be the solution – and it is slowly becoming tangible. But there’s one more catch…
At the mobile trade fair Mobile World Congress, which just took place in Barcelona, Spain, mobile modem manufacturers and smartphone designers took the first interesting steps towards satellite communications.
Satellite modems from Qualcomm & MediaTek
The American concern Qualcomm, one of the market leaders in the field of smartphone processors and modems, wants to market chipsets with satellite communication for mobile phones under the keyword Snapdragon Satellite (see video above) and knew device manufacturers such as Xiaomi and Motorola for its plan. Taiwan-based rival MediaTek has developed a satellite modem for smartphones in collaboration with outdoor cell phone maker Bullitt, known for its CAT smartphones. But Starlink for your wallet is not …
Source: Krone
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