Satellite text text T-Mobile Starlink peculiarity Now available in beta version for everyone who has a compatible device for iPhone or Android, the company has announced Super Bowl AdField a New function Provides a 4G or 5G mobile coating in areas that are not covered with ordinary towers for cell phones, and you can subscribe to it, even if you are on another medium, like Verizon or AT&T.
The service will be available for free until July for approved beta testers, although limited places are available. After that, customers of high-quality T-Mobile offers, such as GO5G plans for $ 180, will receive this function for free. Other T-Mobile clients can add a service for $ 15 per month or $ 10 per month if they register until the end of February. Users of other carriers will be charged $ 20 per month, starting in July (T-Mobile did not explain exactly how this will work).
In August last year, T-Mobile and Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Cooperation, which would allow the carrier’s subscribers to connect to the second -generation satellites Starlink to cover even the most remote places. The service works with standard mobile phones, but only recent, compatible models, including the Apple iPhone 14 series, and then all the Google Pixel 9, Samsung Galaxy S21 models, and then Galaxy Flip3 and Fold3 or later otherField
If you have such a device, registered in the beta version of T-Mobile Starlink and be in the United States without a conventional cell phone coverage, you can connect to the satellite and send someone a simple text message. According to T-Mobile, support for Starlink for voice calls and data will appear later.
T-Mobile and Starlink Sent and received The first text messages using satellites back in January 2024. In the following months FCC gave them permission To include satellite text messages in certain places so that people can remain in touch in hurricane areas. Now anyone can try, but soon it will use limited places.
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