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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Sunday allowed Elon Musk's SpaceX and T Mobile to enable Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cellphones in ...
Direct-to-cell provides connectivity to unmodified cellular phones and is being offered globally in partnership with various national cellular service providers. [ 332 ] [ 333 ] Starlink's broadband internet service is accessed via flat user terminals the size of a pizza box, which have phased array antennas and track the satellites.
A third system was announced in 2022 when T-Mobile US and SpaceX announced a partnership to add satellite cellular service to Starlink second generation (Gen2) satellites that are to begin launching to orbit in late 2022. The service is aimed to provide dead-zone cell phone coverage across the US using existing midband PCS spectrum that T ...
SpaceX bills this newest service as "Starlink Direct to Cell," and recently added a page to its website advertising "seamless access to text, voice, and data for LTE phones across the globe ...
(Reuters) - Apple's iPhone devices are now eligible to test SpaceX-owned Starlink's direct-to-cell capability that provides coverage from space, according to T-Mobile, a partner in the program.
OneWeb alone raised $1.7 billion by February 2017 for the project, [7] and SpaceX raised over one billion in the first half of 2019 for their service called Starlink. [8] They expected more than $30 billion in revenue by 2025 from its satellite constellation. [9] [10] Starlink, as of February 2024, has 5,402 operational satellites in orbit. [11]
The company has struck deals with telecom companies elsewhere around the world for direct-to-cell service, including T-Mobile in the US, and has partnered with airlines to offer free WiFi on flights.
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