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Are satellites becoming the missing coverage layer for global mobile networks?
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, TELUS, Bell, Vodafone and Orange are increasingly integrating satellite connectivity into conventional mobile networks. The emerging model could turn satellites into a standard coverage and resilience layer, although spectrum competition and SpaceX's expanding wireless ambitions raise a more disruptive possibility.
SoftBank and Sceye complete 15,000-km HAPS flight as Japan commercialization moves closer
Sceye’s ST1 stratospheric platform crossed the Pacific and connected ordinary smartphones through SoftBank’s network in Japan. The test moves HAPS beyond laboratory validation, but months-long station keeping and commercial economics remain the harder proof points.