United States, March 5 -- The integration of traditional mobile networks with satellite mobile networks - and the related possibility of truly global connectivity across oceans and continents - has moved a step closer following a significant technology achievement by Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Thales Alenia Space.The three partners combined expertise in a French test laboratory to successfully connect a 5G standards-based non terrestrial network call with a simulated low earth orbit (LEO) satellite channel.In effect, the trial proved that an NR-NTN capable device would never be without mobile coverage where areas are served by either terrestrial or non-terrestrial networks. In other words, if NTN covers an area in the middle ...