Re: T-Mobile opens satellite communications to Android, iOS, AT&E & Verizon

In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:05:51 -0000 (UTC), Marion
<marion@facts.com> wrote:
 

T-Mobile opens satellite communications to Android, iOS, AT&E & Verizon
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-opens-up-its-starlink-beta-including-to-people-with-att-and-verizon/
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"As part of the beta, people in the program will be able
  to send SMS text messages when they're outdoors, even in
  areas where they don't normally get T-Mobile's terrestrial
  coverage. The beta service will be free and open to all
  T-Mobile postpaid users until July, with the carrier also
  making it available for free during this time to AT&T
  and Verizon customers."
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The article discusses how Verizon advertises things it can't do, where it
doesn't mention that Apple is infamous for advertising what doesn't exist.

 Well that would be tasteless.

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"In emergency situations, the company may make the service
  available to all, regardless of plan"

 That may be nice if they may do it.
 If I hiked in the wilderness, or if I lived in the wilderness, this
would be nice to have.  But don't you need a phone with a more powerful
transmitter to get all the way up in the sky?