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Deutsche Bank's Global Space Summit in New York, President Scott Wisniewski · AST SpaceMobile Podcast

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  Baseball was entirely focused on the Director of Ice opportunity.
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  We were founded about 8 years ago with some initial Baptists
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  to solve some of the problems that exist to the three DB
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  protocol. And we have since launched 5
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  satellites that the largest satellites that were launched
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  commercially in the lower Corbet and we're getting ready to
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  launch 11/3 times the size. Next one, we've over this
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  eight-year journey raised about $5 billion in support of this
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  summer build out Payless legal constellation that's entirely
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  focused on cellular. And we've done that because
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  first from a technology point of view and it's second with part
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  of the operate. So we've build relationships and
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  agreements with the 50 well, whatever operators globally put
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  out here with you by subscribers.
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  We're entirely focused on just 6 billion old filters circulation
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  pay pack. You go over there going in and
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  out of how I sit there and they erase the social of work and
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  travel help. They do this with really
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  different generic architecture orpin that we work theory or
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  building now and we do and if our ecos, if ecosystem is very
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  important this not I did ecosystem that we own entirely.
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  It's ecosystem that we just speak and the more network
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  operators are Gray very quarter piece and they're the ones that
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  we pay our silver's ready to do on our phones and the one for
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  the exact. So we were founded around this
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  opportunity as this probe any for so years.
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  We think the price strategy, which is a rock that first try
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  as you were delivering large arrays, they could do prop that
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  as you goes and that's that's trip.
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  Don't pay is a big market and we've organized our distance
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  around them already. So we cop got Marfa size
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  expectations. We think they scare me.
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  They come how they but we're tired to worry about this
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  account beer on the outcome on that and the Agri may radio life
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  or constellation. So then we're deploying the
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  Royal Focus Android Regeneration graphic 25 Sessis Rd. stuff.
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  Though I think Paul mentioned a good point, which is that it's
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  about me if I would work better. We have pretty good incredible
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  terrestrial connectivity at Kindle where we started 30 years
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  ago from zero. So the notion that we have
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  tremendous terrestrial connectivity is fantastic, a
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  little bit the right direction for civilization.
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  But our fields don't work perfectly now.
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  We do not have 100 century router connectivity where our
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  phone isn't worth where we're gonna add on it.
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  And we know that all of us, including every success of the
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  other generation is 1 Bay for no activity over most other hustle
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  live. So I think that the band drivers
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  for like they are incredible. The access to 6 billion phones,
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  which are now standardized plus three heat is incredible.
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  And you know we're our strategy is to do a native cellular
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  service on top of what's already picked up.
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  It's not a tap down texting thing.
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  So we think that them are Chris Baker.
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  They were the research on the 10s of billions dollars.
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  It's, you know, starting hours. So we know if you don't know,
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  right, I'm not smart enough to know how they will be, but our
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  company is entirely organized around providing value to the
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  end customer and the value to our Custer Rivia, Mino and how
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  big that gets. We're leveraging that upside.
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  But I think we see a good runway to 10s billions of dollars in
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  the end state of revenue being created and that's value that
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  makes the phone works. And there's just several
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  customers. There's one, it's the customers
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  and doesn't really have good connectivity who will pay for
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  that data. There's a customer like many of
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  us who probably have good ability to pay.
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  They will pay for that convenience factor and that is
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  the buyer who just ripped your brand in our acres and make it
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  doesn't think the forwards are available.
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  There will be a evolving in perfect networks and the
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  handoffs aren't great. And so we think selling
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  additional connectivity when you don't otherwise have it with
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  your phone with day in your pocket is very valuable and that
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  there's the state of a customer there.
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  And then the fart this tense billion stores, the more
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  specular was better, less specular.
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  We, you know, our our claim to fame amongst several and
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  building this industry outfit is that we have a really large
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  sound and the benefits are really are in satellite.
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  There's a lot of pop or and orbit and the ability to put a
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  lot of service down on the ground and the ability to made
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  it cellular interfered standards with that large satellite.
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  And so that's where we started from and in doing that as the my
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  products of our carrier relationships, we had to use
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  their spectrums and have the apparel.
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  And so the spectrums and the fells between our low band and
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  mid band satellites, they're two volts over 1000 megahertz
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  spectrum of cellular spectrum and take bones today and we use
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  it in places that they don't use it through the miracle of
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  carrier aggregation and other 33 DVD standards that we've added
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  on to that will face votes. We can recombine spectrum.
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  That's how AT&T and Verizon came together as as part of our
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  solution in the a 50 megahertz band is that we took stranded
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  spectrum that was Lacey 2G3G and put it back together and for
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  nothing yet useful for you. And so that's what a large
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  satellite gift orbit, but a lot of power and our technology can
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  do. And alongside that we were
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  fortunate enough to sign up earlier this year.
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  Long term, your assets rates to own the US and we've also made
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  other MSS spectrum moves slowly, but we think that both
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  strategies are great. Well, plus and minuses, but
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  having an access to as much spectrum as possible.
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  Being of the part of the carriers and bring or stuff to
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  carry your relationship is very valuable strategically and is
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  going to be a part of this evolution.
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  And I I think we're decades away from a notion where we're pushed
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  out to Barfield economics. This is a land grab a they build
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  out Howard B cut it and the more assets you're now to the Hardy
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  technology relationships spectrum capital, the better off
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  you are kind of for purpose on time and the model.
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  We've always striven use out a 5050 RO share for outright and
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  of the four definitive agreements to sign with ATT
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  Verizon, both STC Saudi Arabia with that cumulative one bill,
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  you have to take a Bay revenue across those contracts.
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  So we think that it add on business models a smart way go
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  for a rot big product and we think that the value is there
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  for the customer of a some we're sending you a customer a base to
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  pay and over time some of that may be included or premium
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  plans. There's lots of models, there's
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  this layout or offloading, there's edge offloading, there's
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  disaster recovery, there's backup options, there's
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  standalone options. There's a lot of different
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  models. But at the moment where we're
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  starting the interactual and commercial journey, it's with an
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  add on product, which you see across the illusion of decades
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  of the wireless industry, including with today's
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  international passport while with the away of the broad.
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  So that's I think a smart bite. You start to build this product
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  out the lines extra across revenue generation, a trade
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  reduction through customer satisfaction and framework of
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  phrases. So I think that's the smart way
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  to do it, smart way to align interests that it's how we've
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  always attacked the problem we are.
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  We're hoping to operate in a world in a 6 billion funds
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  event. So the ecosystem approach is
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  totally different than you know, I'd seen fixed broadband
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  business and from the outset our approach is very mobile network
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  operator centric. But we have investment from the
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  American tower big tower company invested twice every message
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  from Google who has the largest operating system and 3 billion
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  Android users in industry and make ID and and but up on tops
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  of the mobile network operator rooms.
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  That's really where with their bet because we think that's
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  where the services hand is. That's where the users are.
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  That's what folks will value. Ridge Media, broad bags, video,
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  the stuff that we do on our phone won't order this.
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  And then these both phones invested 3 times.
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  So we have a five year ritually exclusive contract and all 24 of
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  their markets will do including a joint venture in Europe, AT&T
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  with whom we have ritual leases contract in the United States,
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  Dell Canada with whom we have a mutual leases contract in Canada
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  and the CC we just signed up with a mutual leases contract in
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  some locations over as many as 10 years.
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  So now for us with mayor that we've owned that prep operators
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  in the run with us for years and years and years of helping this
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  product and there's Cee Lo's CC is a lie for us and for those
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  who accept all these investments are small, they're not
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  meaningful. We just announced last week on
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  our install for the first time she related take your pay
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  agreements of over $1 billion in future relative commitments in
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  addition to prepayments including 175,000,000 coming in
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  this this amount from SPC. So we think mobile network
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  operators are our proper of choice.
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  We love the ecosystem, we want to grow the ecosystem and in the
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  search range.