SoftBank Working With Intelsat on Hybrid 5G Device
SoftBank and Intelsat will collaborate on a device that combines terrestrial and satellite connections, “enabling customers to stay connected everywhere they go,” the companies said. SoftBank and Intelsat will “lead research and development of seamless 5G connections” between terrestrial and…
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satellite networks and launch a hybrid solution, said a Monday news release. “Despite the coming realization of autonomous mobility with automobiles, ships, drones and other vehicles, many areas are still without ground-based mobile network coverage and require separate devices and accounts to connect to non-terrestrial networks,” the companies said. Design, development, field-testing and commercialization will come in phases, “aligned” with development of 3rd Generation Partnership Project 5G nonterrestrial network standards. “The resulting hybrid solutions will allow for existing satellite terminals to be used in the near term and newer 5G-based terminals as they become available,” the companies said.