The Moon is getting 4G thanks to NASA and Nokia

[Mike Wehner]

• NASA wants to build a 4G/LTE communications network on the Moon, and it's hoping that Nokia will be able to make it happen.
• Nokia's Bell Labs will work on adapting technology used on Earth for use in lunar communications.
• The company received a $14.1 million deal for the work, according to NASA.

If I asked you to guess what company NASA thought was most capable of building a 4G communications network on the Moon, what would you say? I mean there's Verizon, AT&T, the T-Mobile/Sprint monolith, and several other companies that provide that service here in the United States and abroad, so there's many to choose from.

Well, NASA didn't tap any of those big names to build its own 4G lunar network. Nope, it picked a company that, as far as the U.S. mobile industry is concerned, is little more than a blast from the past: Nokia. As part of a huge list of companies that NASA is throwing money at to develop various technologies, the space agency announced that Nokia would receive $14.1 million to build out a 4G/LTE system in space.

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