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“A recent Reuters report on Iran’s escalating battle with Starlink highlights why that playbook is starting to fray. Tehran has spent years perfecting censorship and surveillance, yet it now finds itself struggling to contain a […]
“MTN South Africa and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite service company Lynk Global carried out a successful technical trial of one of the first satellite-to-mobile device phone calls in South Africa. The phone call, made in […]
Satellite connectivity on smartphones can be an incredibly important safety feature, and both phone makers and carriers are working to expand its availability. Now, Starlink’s direct-to-cell service that will be used by T-Mobile now has […]
AST SpaceMobile claims it is building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible by standard smartphones. They plan to deliver a global cellular network from space. In a briefing early last year, the […]
“We’ll definitely be beta testing with commercial customers in 2024,” Dave Limp, head of Amazon devices, said at a conference in Washington. The “standard customer terminal”, 11-inch square antennas for the Kuiper network, will cost […]
South Africans living in rural areas without mobile or fixed network coverage can get Internet access through a satellite broadband provider. Starlink may have less latency and higher speeds, but it is not yet available […]
Bullitt—a British phone manufacturer best known for licensing the heavy machinery “Caterpillar” brand for ruggedized smartphones—is launching what sounds like a full end-to-end solution that will bring satellite messaging to non-iPhone users. It’s launching the […]
Qualcomm, the company behind the Snapdragon chipsets found in many Android phones (like the Galaxy S22 and OnePlus 10T), announced “Snapdragon Satellite” at CES 2023 today. It’s advertised as the world’s first two-way messaging system […]
There is no need to build in special support as in the iPhone 14. Depending on the configuration of the satellite, it will provide messaging, voice or broadband services. When the satellites are in place […]
Before the iPhone 13 launch last fall (Northern Hemisphere), a flurry of reports had suggested the 2021 iPhone lineup would feature “LEO,” or satellite connectivity. Satellite connectivity would enable the iPhone to send short messages […]
