Lynk Global

Lynk Global is an American company developing a satellite-to-mobile-phone satellite constellation that aims to provide a "cell tower in space" capability for global mobile phone service coverage, including in underserved rural areas without cellular coverage.

Shannon is larger and operates at a higher power level and greater telecom capacity than the earlier test satellites.

[6] On 25 July 2023, Lynk published the first public video demonstrating a satellite-to-phone voice-call,[7] though earlier in April of the same year, AST SpaceMobile claimed to have made the first space-based two-way telephone call with an unmodified smartphone.

To accomplish the regulatory side of this novel telecommunications method will require that Lynk work through the various geographically dispersed, and often country-specific, mobile network operators in any area of the world in which the service is to be available.

[1] The first Lynk payloads to be tested in space have been flown attached to Cygnus spacecraft following their departure from the ISS.