SpaceX enables Starlink satellites to directly connect to mobile phones to send text messages: the connection can be established without changing equipment

News on January 11, according to foreign media reports, SpaceX officially announced that it successfully used Starlink satellites to send text messages.

According to SpaceX, it used T-Mobile's network to successfully send text messages through Starlink satellites, and plans to bring its mobile phone direct-connection satellite service to the market within the next year.

SpaceX plans to start offering D2D text services this year, and expects to expand to voice, data and IoT services in 2025.

According to SpaceX’s official website, the direct-connect mobile phone service can be used with existing mobile phones to achieve “seamless access to text, voice and data” without changing hardware, firmware or special applications.

In other words, users do not need to specifically purchase a new mobile phone that supports satellite communications to directly connect to satellites, which is different from the current technologies of Huawei, iPhone, Tianyi Platon, etc.

Officials predict that this business will enable sending text messages from 2024, and enable voice calls, web browsing, and connection to Internet of Things devices from 2025.

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