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Abel Avellan

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AST SpaceMobile, Inc.

Search every verified Abel Avellan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Abel Avellan, chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile, discussed the company’s progress toward commercial deployment during its second-quarter 2026 earnings call. He stated that the company is “on the cusp of commercial deployment” as it prepares to scale its space-based mobile service to unmodified smartphones, citing certain spacecraft in orbit, approximately 20,000 square feet of combined aperture hardware, and about 50 gateways globally in various stages of completion. Avellan also noted that AST SpaceMobile received an award, pending government approvals and final agreements with partner Rakuten, for participation in a low Earth orbit satellite infrastructure development project in Japan, with a total expected value of up to approximately $1 billion in non-dilutive, non-debt government capital. On the company’s fourth-quarter 2024 earnings call, Avellan highlighted a completed $460 million convertible senior note offering, which left nearly $1 billion in cash on the balance sheet with a 4.25% coupon and minimized effective dilution to existing shareholders to approximately 3%. He also mentioned an agreement providing long-term access to up to 45 MHz of lower mid-band spectrum in the United States for direct-to-device satellite applications, describing it as the largest available block of high-quality nationwide spectrum in the country.

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