Verizon Partnership Sends Shares of a Space-Based Cell Provider Soaring

Michael Siluk / Universal Images Group via Getty Images A Verizon partnership with space-based cellphone service provider AST SpaceMobile will bring direct-to-customer broadband service across the continental U.S. Key Takeaways AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Communications will partner to provide space-based cellphone service in the continental U.S. The service will be available to Verizon customers in 2026. Shares of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) blasted off, trading at an all-time high after the provider of ...