Space Compass, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) jointly announced that they have been selected by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) to develop direct-to-device (D2D) mobile services, which will be deployed via a space-based non-terrestrial network (NTN) using high-altitude platform stations (HAPS). Image: NTT

The mobile telecom tech future will be on display this month in Barcelona and Japan’s leading mobile carrier, NTT DOCOMO, has some new high-tech gear to tout. Take note, for starters, of the term non-terrestrial networks and the related acronym HAPS. A HAPS is a high-altitude platform station, launched to extend telecom services beyond the […]

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