Exploring the Commercial Potential of Low Earth Orbit

For the most part, our phones work about 95% of the time. But head outside of suburbia, and things get patchy quickly. What would it take to close that final 5% gap?

Scott Wisniewski is the President and Chief Strategy Officer of AST Space Mobile, a satellite company that’s trying to bring connectivity literally everywhere – the desert, the ocean, the air, everywhere. Ricky Mulvey caught up with Wisniewski to discuss:

- What universal connectivity actually achieves.

- The operational challenges of getting something as large as a cell tower onto something as small as a rocket.

- And the developing “land grab” in low-earth orbit. 

Companies discussed: ASTS, VOD, VZ, TMUS, 

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Scott Wisniewski

Producer: Mary Long

Engineers: Rick Engdahl

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