Starlink and T-Mobile’s text-by-satellite service is available in Florida

Oct 09, 2024 07:37 AM - 4 months ago 152371

T-Mobile customers successful areas affected by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton will now beryllium capable to nonstop SMS texts complete Starlink satellites, according to SpaceX.

“We person now enabled basal texting (SMS) for those connected T-Mobile phones successful hurricane affected areas,” SpaceX says. “Text messages person already been sent and received. You tin matter loved ones, matter 911 and proceed to person emergency alerts.”

If your telephone connects to a Starlink outer alternatively of the accustomed antenna, you’ll spot 1 to 2 bars of service, and the web sanction will beryllium “T-Mobile SpaceX,” according to SpaceX. You mightiness person to retry matter messages if they don’t spell through, and SpaceX says the work useful “best outdoors” and “occasionally useful indoors adjacent a window.”

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave SpaceX and T-Mobile impermanent support for the direct-to-cell work for areas impacted by Hurricane Helene earlier this week, wherever its satellites person been utilized to deliver emergency alerts to each phones and carriers. Now SpaceX says the FCC “has besides quickly approved emergency typical impermanent authority for sum successful Florida up of Hurricane Milton.”

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