T-Mobile US has announced a free beta test of its starlink connection for traditional smartphones with an advertisement in Super Bowl. If you register for this, you will get an additional function for $ 10 per month from July, $ 15 for everyone else. Can participate But the customers of other providers, for them, spend the opportunity to send them to the text messages really everywhere, $ 20 per month. Connected smartphones should connect directly to internet satellites in areas without mobile phone connections. In later times, audio, video and other services should also be possible.
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Advertising video for beta testing begins with the determination that about 500,000 square miles (about 1.3 million square kilometers) of the region of the United States are not supplied with mobile communication. It is large as Germany, France and Poland. There can also be no emergency call, as can be closed as emotional messages about newborns, about your children’s games successes or videos, it is then called. The affected areas are mainly uninhabited areas. The central argument for satellite connections should so there should be a possibility of cancellation of emergency calls and reporting from the forest.
SpaceX and T-Mobile US presented cooperation two and a half years ago, the beta test was originally for 2023. Elon Musk’s space company began shooting special satellites for the direct mobile phone connections of the smartphone only in early 2024. According to T-Mobile, 451 of them are now on the road. Furthermore, due to this delay, the satellite connection of the smartphone through the American provider is no longer a novelty, a similar emergency work has been done for iPhones over the years. With T-Mobile US, it now works with many more models, including many of Samsung, Google and Motorola and not only emergency.
(MHO)
