Uganda Telecom seeks to provide Ugandans with 100% coverage across the country using AST SpaceMobile’s planned cellular broadband network as the main coverage provider.
Uganda Telecom Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with AST SpaceMobile Inc to improve their network coverage across the country.
AST SpaceMobile Inc is building the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones.
Uganda Telecom seeks to provide Ugandans with 100% coverage across the country using AST SpaceMobile’s planned cellular broadband network as the main coverage provider.
According to Otaremwa Otuhumurize, the technical consultant UTL, the combined effort would explore opportunities to offer Uganda Telecom network users access to AST SpaceMobile’s planned network using their cell phones and other devices, any time, and anywhere within the country.
This will also serve rural areas that do not currently have cellular broadband service.
The partnership was signed between the two companies at the UTL offices in Kampala on Tuesday.
‘AST SpaceMobile’s mission is to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers moving in and out of coverage zones, and bring cellular broadband to approximately half of the world’s population who remain unconnected,’Otuhumurize said.
To date, AST SpaceMobile has entered into agreements and understandings with mobile network operators which collectively cover approximately 1.4 billion mobile subscribers.
The Company recently announced plans to deploy its second prototype spacecraft, BlueWalker.
AST SpaceMobile is a new global low earth orbit satellite constellation which enables existing mobile network operators to provide 100percent mobile broadband coverage direct to standard mobile devices and smart phones for their customers.
