T-Mobile is a major telecommunications company that is expanding its reach into the space industry through a partnership with SpaceX. Together, they are launching T-Mobile Starlink, a space-based mobile network that utilizes Starlink satellites to provide connectivity to smartphones in areas without traditional cell service. This service aims to eliminate "dead zones" and provide ubiquitous coverage for text messaging, with plans to expand to include picture messaging, data, and voice calls in the future. T-Mobile Starlink is available to customers on any carrier.
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The Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX conditional approval on 2024-11-26 to use Starlink broadband satellites to provide Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) to T-Mobile smartphone users in cellular dead zones across the United States.
SpaceX has permission to use T-Mobile’s cellular frequencies on up to 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites to provide Supplemental Coverage from Space, provided the operations do not interfere with other networks.
On 2024-01-08, SpaceX’s D2C satellites sent and received their first text messages to and from unmodified phones on the ground using T-Mobile network spectrum.
SpaceX plans to start limited texting services from modified Starlink broadband satellites later 2024 in the United States using T-Mobile’s radio waves in the 1900 megahertz band.
SpaceX plans to use T-Mobile spectrum for direct-to-smartphone services in the United States.
Omnispace is concerned that the SpaceX/T-Mobile SCS plan to use an MSS uplink as a powerful satellite downlink could cause harmful interference to Omnispace’s existing and planned non-geostationary satellite orbit systems.
The proposed FCC framework is a particularly important milestone for SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile, which have partnered with T-Mobile and AT&T, respectively, to enter the U.S. direct-to-smartphone market.
John Finney transitioned from military communication services to the civilian telecom sector, serving as a Telecoms Advisor for One2One & T-Mobile.
SpaceX intends to launch a commercial direct-to-cellular service with partner T-Mobile later 2024 and will start comprehensive tests before submitting results to the FCC.
Elon Musk’s Starlink is expanding its satellite offerings to include emergency and then full voice services and is working with T-Mobile on those services.
SpaceX aims to launch an early texting capability in the United States in 2024 in partnership with T-Mobile.
SpaceX launched a first batch of satellites to test a direct-to-smartphone capability in partnership with T-Mobile US.
Early 2024, using T-Mobile’s network, SpaceX successfully sent and received text messages using new Starlink direct-to-cell satellites.
SpaceX plans to start testing direct-to-cell connectivity between Starlink satellites and T-Mobile smartphones in several locations across the United States.
T-Mobile announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the first set of Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities.
T-Mobile and SpaceX issued an open invitation to wireless providers worldwide to expand Direct to Cell globally with reciprocal roaming.
Initial direct-to-smartphone tests will use cellular spectrum from SpaceX’s U.S. mobile partner T-Mobile.
SpaceX is teaming up with T-Mobile in the United States to deploy direct-to-smartphone services using upgraded broadband satellites in the Starlink constellation.
The FCC raised more than $80,000,000,000 from auctioning C-band spectrum to telcos, including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
The FCC raised more than $80,000,000,000 from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and other telcos from auctioning C-band frequencies.