{"id":174635,"date":"2025-02-11T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=174635"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:00:52","slug":"att-expands-direct-to-cell-testing-with-ast-spacemobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=174635","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Expands Direct-to-Cell Testing with AST SpaceMobile!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>AT&amp;T is set to test AST SpaceMobile&#8217;s direct-to-cellular broadband service over its premium nationwide spectrum, including 12MHz x 12MHz in the 700MHz band and 25MHz x 25MHz in the 800MHz band.<br><br>This is significant because AT&amp;T is not just testing 850MHz (alongside Verizon) but also leveraging 700MHz\u2014a key move for enhanced coverage and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Image-6-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Image-6-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Image-6-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Image-6-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Image-6.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Meanwhile, AST SpaceMobile is ramping up satellite production at its Midland, TX facility, with 200+ employees already on board and plans to expand to 300-400 employees by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T is set to test AST SpaceMobile&#8217;s direct-to-cellular broadband service over its premium nationwide spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":174638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9267],"tags":[15326,15327,11],"class_list":["post-174635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-space-news","tag-att","tag-mobile-services","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174639,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174635\/revisions\/174639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}