The function of T-Mobile Starlink Satellite Textos is now available in beta version for anyone with an iPhone or compatible Android device, the company announced in a Super bowl announcement. THE new feature Provides 4G or 5G mobile coverage in areas not covered by ordinary mobile phone towers, and you can register even if you are on another carrier like Verizon or AT&T.
The service will be available free of charge until July for approved beta testers, although limited places are available. After that, customers of high-end T-Mobile offers, such as the $ 180 GO5G plan, will receive the functionality at no cost. Other T-Mobile customers can add the service for $ 15 per month, or $ 10 per month if they register before the end of February. Users of other carriers will be billed $ 20 per month from July (T-Mobile did not explain exactly how it would work).
In August of last year, T-Mobile and Elon Musk of Elon Musk announced a collaboration that would allow the subscribers of the carrier to connect to the second generation satellites of Starlink for the coverage, even in the most remote. The service works with standard mobile phones, but only recent compatible models, including the Apple iPhone 14 series and later, all Google Pixel 9 models, the Samsung Galaxy S21 and later, Galaxy Flip3 and Fold3 or later others.
If you have such a device, you are registered with the Beta T-Mobile Starlink and you will find in an area in the United States without ordinary mobile phone coverage, you should be able to connect to a satellite and send a simple text message. Starlink’s care for voice calls and data will arrive later, said T-Mobile.
T-Mobile and Starlink sent and received the first SMS using satellites in January 2024. In the months that followed, the FCC had given them permission to allow satellite sms in certain places so that people can remain connected in the areas struck by the hurricane. Now anyone can try it, but it would be better to apply soon given the limited places.
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