Vodafone, AST SpaceMobile Forge Ahead With Plans to Counter Starlink in the EU

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As Europe looks to cut some of its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Vodafone and Texas-based AST SpaceMobile will build a new operations center in Germany to support their previously announced broadband satellite constellation.

In March, the two firms said they would create a “jointly owned European satellite service business” designed to serve mobile carriers in Europe, dubbed SatCo. Vodafone expects…