AT&T strikes deal with AST SpaceMobile
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. Today is Thursday, May 16th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:13.0 | AT&T partners with AST Space Mobile. |
| 0:16.3 | NEO is making changes based on new U.S. tariffs, |
| 0:20.4 | and Peloton is looking to refinance its debt. |
| 0:24.0 | AT&T said on Wednesday that it had entered into a deal with satellite network company |
| 0:29.6 | AST Space Mobile. |
| 0:31.8 | The goal is to bring satellite internet connectivity to phones, providing a potential |
| 0:36.6 | alternative to SpaceX's Starlink. |
| 0:39.8 | Shares of AST Mobile surge 60% and after hours trading on Wednesday. |
| 0:45.1 | Pre-market today, ASTS is up 43%. |
| 0:49.6 | The Commercial Agreement will provide a space-based broadband network direct to everyday cell phones and last until 2030. |
| 0:58.0 | AT&T has been working with AST since 2018 to build the technology. |
| 1:03.2 | AST Space Mobile plans to deliver its first commercial satellites to Cape Canaveral for |
| 1:09.2 | launch into low-Earth orbit this summer. |
| 1:11.9 | These initial five satellites will enable the satellite to cell phone service. |
| 1:17.2 | AT&T is an investor in AST Space Mobile along with Google and Vodafone. |
| 1:23.0 | Of course, AT&T is not alone in its efforts to bring satellite internet connectivity to phones in the |
| 1:29.1 | U.S. T-Mobile has a similar deal with SpaceX. |
| 1:33.2 | Verizon also has a deal with Amazon's |
| 1:35.9 | low-Earth Orbit Satellite Network program, |
| 1:38.8 | and Apple has been offering satellite |
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