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  "description": "Verizon has signed a deal with AST SpaceMobile to provide cellular service from space beginning next year.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-10-09T15:10:43.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Oct. 9, 2025 (AP) – Verizon has signed a deal to provide cellular service from space through AST SpaceMobile beginning next year.\n\nShares of AST SpaceMobile, a space-based cellular broadband network, soared more than 10% before the market opened Wednesday.\n\nSpaceMobile's network is designed to operate across premium low-band spectrum, its own licensed L-band and S-band spectrum, and up to 1,150 MHz of mobile network operator partners’ low- and mid-band spectrum worldwide, the company said.\n\n“The agreement will extend the scope of Verizon’s 850 MHz premium low-band spectrum into areas of the U.S. that would benefit from the ubiquitous reach of space-based broadband technology,\" **Abel Avellan** , founder, chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile, said in a statement.\n\nFinancial terms of the agreement, which expands on a strategic partnership announced in early 2024, were not disclosed.\n\n“By integrating our expansive, reliable, robust terrestrial network with this innovative space-based technology, we are paving the way for a future where everything and everyone can be connected, regardless of geography,\" **Srini Kalapala** , Verizon's senior vice president of technology and product development, said in a statement.\n\nThe deal arrives two days after Verizon named former PayPal CEO **Dan Schulman** to its top job, taking over the post from Verizon CEO **Hans Vestberg**.\n\nSchulman, who has served as a Verizon board member since 2018 and is its lead independent director, will become CEO of the New York company immediately. Vestberg will serve as a special adviser through Oct. 4, 2026.\n\nVestberg will continue as a Verizon board member until its 2026 annual meeting.\n\n_This article was written by Michelle Chapman of the Associated Press._",
  "title": "Verizon Teams With AST SpaceMobile on Space-Based Cellular Service",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:44:53.280Z"
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