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# Verizon Teams With AST SpaceMobile on Space-Based Cellular Service
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/verizon-teams-with-ast-spacemobile-on-space-based-cellular-service/
- Published: 2025-10-09T15:10:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T05:44:52.000Z
- Description: Verizon has signed a deal with AST SpaceMobile to provide cellular service from space beginning next year.
- Author: Associated Press
- Tags: Briefs, Satellite, #with-siderail, AP, Verizon, AST SpaceMobile, Spectrum, L-Band, S-Band, Abel Avellan, Srini Kalapala, Dan Schulman, Hans Vestberg

Oct. 9, 2025 (AP) – Verizon has signed a deal to provide cellular service from space through AST SpaceMobile beginning next year.

Shares of AST SpaceMobile, a space-based cellular broadband network, soared more than 10% before the market opened Wednesday.

SpaceMobile'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.

“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.

Financial terms of the agreement, which expands on a strategic partnership announced in early 2024, were not disclosed.

“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.

The deal arrives two days after [Verizon](https://apnews.com/article/verizon-vestberg-schulman-frontier-paypal-3d72194f260ee7330adfcc8555367c66?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com) named former PayPal CEO **Dan Schulman** to its top job, taking over the post from Verizon CEO **Hans Vestberg**.

Schulman, 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.

Vestberg will continue as a Verizon board member until its 2026 annual meeting.

*This article was written by Michelle Chapman of the Associated Press.*