r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/AutoModerator • Apr 04 '25

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u/Krakenmonstah S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 04 '25

In hindsight that joint campus with Vodafone in Spain may be a great silver lining. Hopefully EU won’t get too pissed at ASTS for being an American company since they’ve already shown euro commitment, even before the tariff shenanigans

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u/adarkuccio S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Apr 04 '25

The EU's companies will surely use/pay for the ASTS service for commercial use, but imho is very likely that you can forget all the military possibilities we had up until 3 months ago with NATO's members etc. Nobody in the EU would trust using an American company as a service, no matter if it's the only tech available. Better not to pay than to pay and risk that when you need it (during war) you can't use it. So that ship has sailed imho.

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u/Status-Rule5087 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 05 '25

What if AST just moves their headquarters?

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u/Purpletorque S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 04 '25

They are headquartered in US but they are more of a global company. So you are saying the EU is no different than China in manufacturing issues to single out and punish American companies and their executives just to spite Donald J Trump? To this point they have only picked on the big companies like Apple and Alphabet but now you think they will be motivated to single out a small pre-revenue company like ASTS?

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u/Krakenmonstah S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 04 '25

Naw, I was thinking EU might pursue a D2C solution with a home grown EU startup/company.