Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#70XTD)
SpaceX's $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrum band. DTC is an emerging service and we are going from it ...