On 20 February, Dutash Telecom presented its strategy for mobile phone coverage of unwarded areas as part of a workshop for the media. The original of the half -hour lecture was simply: Telecom does not want to fasten through Starlink satellites from its worldly network in Europe in Europe, but thinks of other routes.
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This is probably unpredictable for many customers, because there is no way around modern satellites when it comes to coupling smartphones that are currently in the radio clad. In the United States, Telecom Assistant T-Mobile recently began a public beta test.
Deserted
The project is not yet finished. Pioneer Starlink continues to bring new satellites into low earth jewelry (low earth orbit, Leo) several times a month. Many other companies work with fever on similar satellite constellations, such as AST Spasmobile in collaboration with Vodafone. It is expensive, but stressed satellites around the planet are almost every angle of the Earth. In this way, deserts and mountains can also be covered, which will rarely find a base station, for cost reasons. For network operators, efforts to laying cables for power supply and networking in large uninhabited areas are very high. It certainly does not work on high seas and satellite operators can only get the value of their money by supplying the crew and passengers of the ship.
For Dutash Telecom, using Starlink service in Germany is really clear. But this should not be expected in the near future. The reason for this is simple, but not a solution: To supply simple smartphones with mobile phone signals, mobile phone network operators must provide satellite operators with worldly frequencies. It works in Telecom’s conversation with Starlink in the USA. This is not possible in Europe and on continents with small regions of space, because network operators use separate frequencies in neighboring countries due to different countries. For example, in Germany and Austria, this is the case in Telecom, which is why there are less pension stoppers when crossing the border with a train or car when smartphones switch from one network to another.
Fankhols in border strip
According to Telecom, satellites’ dropouts are not allowed to overlap, but even about 50 kilometers of security distance from classroom supply will have to be followed. In other words, the Starlink satellite leaves about 50 km wide border bandage. Starlink service for Telecom appears unattractive to telecom and works on other solutions. For example, high altitude platform (HAP), for example, falls from the stratosphere. For this purpose, Telecom has announced a different message for the days to come.
In the United States, however, the conditions required for starlink care are very inexpensive. The country is covered with only 60 percent of worldly mobile communication, so that the network operators there save a lot of money if they hit the remaining 40 percent one. In addition, the United States has far lower border courses than European countries regarding the region. There is also a good laughter in laughter that supplies the island: they usually have no direct neighbors and can use services such as Starlink without special precautions. This includes Vodafone in Great Britain for example, for example. It explains why Vodafone should offer AST Spasmobile Satellite service this year.
Extended radio regulation in a long time
For the European Union you will have to wait for the long process of radio regulation (possibly by 2028), which brings a solution to the cross -bore traffic. And regulators also have to find out how worldly frequencies used by satellites have to be preserved against disorders by neighboring radio services, or SAT operators how to protect neighboring services. So far, both in Europe have been regulated for operating on the surface of the Earth only, the Federal Communications Commission in the United States has already published its own guidelines.
(DZ)
