SpaceX and T-Mobile Want To Team Up , To Use Satellites for Better Cell Phone Service.
SpaceX and T-Mobile Want To Team Up , To Use Satellites for Better Cell Phone Service.
CNN reports that the companies are planning to perform a beta test using SpaceX's Starlink to send cell service to "most places in the U.S," .
CNN reports that the companies are planning to perform a beta test using SpaceX's Starlink to send cell service to "most places in the U.S," .
including areas typically categorized as "dead zones.".
To provide this service, the companies will create a new network, broadcast from Starlink's satellites using T-Mobile's midband spectrum nationwide. This true satellite-to-cellular service will provide nearly complete coverage almost anywhere a customer can see the sky, T-Mobile, via press release.
T-Mobile is also offering worldwide carriers reciprocal roaming to hopefully enable people around the globe to utilize their phone's messaging capabilities. .
The service will be limited to text-based messaging initially with voice and video calls periodically getting through.
You might just have to wait half an hour, maybe, for the thing to go through, but it should still work from early on. , Elon Musk, via statement .
It's not a substitute for ground cell stations, because ground cell stations especially in urban and suburban areas will definitely be superior to what we're talking about here. This is really meant to provide basic coverage to areas that are currently completely dead, Elon Musk, via statement .
This is an open invitation to carriers around the world, please get in touch with us, Elon Musk, via statement .
Musk also said the service could "save lives" since people would have connectivity when experiencing emergencies in remote areas.
Musk also said the service could "save lives" since people would have connectivity when experiencing emergencies in remote areas
