- Visibility18
- Citations1
- Sentiment59
- Site quality60
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name AST SpaceMobile in 18.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 5%. Its overall score is 30 out of 100, ranking 1,195th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the telecom market: none named AST SpaceMobile. AI assistants named it in 11 of 60 answers (18.3%). The typical telecom company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, AST SpaceMobile ranks 9 of 41 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
41 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How can mobile network operators extend coverage using satellite-to-mobile broadband?”
I'll search for current information on how mobile network operators are using satellite-to-mobile broadband technology to extend coverage.Based on current developments, here are the key ways mobile network operators are extending coverage using satellite-to-mobile broadband:
Complementary Coverage Layer
Rather than replacing terrestrial networks, satellite broadband serves as an additional layer for difficult-to-cover regions and for use cases where coverage resilience matters. This approach helps in rural coverage, maritime routes, emergency response, remote enterprise locations, mining, …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPartly met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 13 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · ast-science.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US-listed.
- How can mobile network operators extend coverage using satellite-to-mobile broadband?
- Best satellite-based solutions for connecting remote or rural communities to mobile broadband
- Are there affordable monthly plans for direct satellite-to-smartphone broadband connectivity?
- Options besides satellite-to-mobile connectivity for emergency communication in remote environments
- Direct-to-smartphone satellite broadband vs mobile hotspot satellite devices—what’s the difference?
- What other technologies compete with satellite-based broadband for mobile phone coverage in isolated regions?
- Is satellite-based mobile broadband worth it for rural network coverage?
- Alternatives to satellite-to-mobile broadband for covering network gaps in rural America
- Are satellite-to-mobile broadband services reliable enough for emergency response teams?
- What factors affect the pricing of satellite-to-mobile broadband services in the U.S.?
- Ways organizations can maintain connectivity during natural disasters using satellite-to-mobile solutions
- What are the top options for satellite-to-mobile broadband connectivity in the U.S.?
- How does satellite-to-mobile broadband differ from traditional satellite internet services?
- Why can’t my standard smartphone connect to satellite broadband when traveling in remote areas?
- Common issues with satellite connectivity to regular smartphones and how to fix them
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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