Satellite video calls will be coming to Europe from later this year, following a successful demo of the tech by Vodafone in partnership with AST SpaceMobile. Rollout in the US through AT&T will follow some time later. As with existing satellite text and voice calls, the service will operate in remote areas where no cellular coverage is available …

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The service is provided by BlueBird satellites from Vodafone's partner (and SpaceX rival) AST SpaceMobile. The system is based on five satellites and Vodafone calls it "the first and only mobile broadband network in space" that works directly with standard smartphones.

Liftoff is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 29).

The BlueBird satellites were able to relay the video call from a Vodafone engineer while he was based in a remote mountain region in the UK.