NEWS: T-Mobile’s satellite service with Starlink will be available across the US starting on July 23, even to customers of other carriers. The service can cover 500,000 square miles of area that traditional carriers can’t reach. Satellite will support texting for both Android and iOS devices at launch. On October 1, T-Mobile will enable a data-based satellite service.
T-Mobile says the beta program has been “incredibly successful” and has 1.8 million users who’ve sent out over a million text messages from “areas unreachable by any terrestrial provider,” including national parks. In addition, the number of messages received by users was three times the number of messages received, demonstrating that they were connected to the service even while they weren’t really using it.