AXIAN Telecom, the parent company of a leading pan-African telecom group (Yas), today announced a partnership with AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS). AST SpaceMobile is building a space-based cellular broadband network designed to work directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices. Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to deliver Africa’s first direct-to-device (D2D) space-based mobile broadband service, bringing voice, video, data, and internet connectivity to people across remote, rural, maritime, and aviation zones that terrestrial networks cannot reach.