Netherlands, Nov. 4 -- European Space Agency (ESA), MediaTek Inc. Eutelsat, Airbus Defence and Space, Sharp, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) have conducted the world's first successful trial of 5G-Advanced Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology over the Eutelsat's OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites compliant with 3GPP Rel-19 NR NTN configurations. The tests pave the way for deployment of 5G-Advanced NR NTN standard, which will lead to future satellite and terrestrial interoperability within a large ecosystem, lowering the cost of access and enabling the use of satellite broadband for NTN devices around the world.The trial used OneWeb satellites, communicating with the MediaTek NR NTN chip...