Anam Hamid is a computer scientist turned tech journalist who has a keen interest in the tech world, with a particular focus on smartphones and tablets. She has previously written for Android Headlines and has also been a ghostwriter for several tech and car publications.
have joined hands to bring satellite-based texting to the latter's customers. A pre-requisite for satellite-powered communications is to be out in the open sky. For instance, Apple instructs its users to have a direct view of the sky to establish a satellite connection. However, SpaceX's service may have no such limitation.
T-Mobile and SpaceX's direct-to-cell service might be more exciting than anticipated. | Image Credit - Ben Longmier, XLongmier says that SpaceX was able to roll out emergency SMS for areas impacted by Hurricane Milton within 24 hours and that in the future, the response time will be shortened to within just tens of minutes for any area from 58 degrees North to 58 degrees South latitudes.
This service is unique in that messages will go through almost immediately and coverage will be entire countries. Other services take 60+ seconds, require pointing a phone, or are simply spot beams in small locations with hour long gaps in coverage.Meanwhile, SpaceX has still not been able to convince the FCC to relax the current -120 dBW/m2/MHz aggregate power flux-density PFD limit, which it says is overly restrictive.
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