T-Mobile is offering its Starlink satellite texting feature for free until July

T-Mobile's Starlink outer texting feature is present disposable successful beta for anyone with a compatible iPhone oregon Android instrumentality to effort out, the institution announced successful a Super Bowl ad. The new feature provides mobile 4G oregon 5G sum successful areas not covered by regular compartment telephone towers, and you tin motion up for it adjacent if you're connected different bearer similar Verizon oregon AT&T. 

The work volition beryllium disposable for escaped until July to approved beta testers, though constricted spots are available. After that, customers of T-Mobile's high-end offerings similar the $180 Go5G Next program volition person the diagnostic astatine nary cost. Other T-Mobile customers tin adhd the work for $15 per month, oregon $10 per period if they motion up earlier the extremity of February. Users of different carriers volition beryllium charged $20 per period starting successful July (T-Mobile didn't explicate precisely however that would work). 

In August past year, T-Mobile and Elon Musk's SpaceX announced a collaboration that would let the carrier's subscribers to link to Starlink's second-gen satellites for sum adjacent from the astir distant locations. The work works with modular mobile phones, but lone recent, compatible models including the Apple iPhone 14 bid and later, each Google Pixel 9 models, the Samsung Galaxy S21 and later, Galaxy Flip3 and Fold3 oregon aboriginal and others. 

If you person specified a device, are enrolled successful the T-Mobile Starlink beta and find yourself successful an country of the US without regular compartment telephone coverage, you should beryllium capable to link to a outer and nonstop idiosyncratic a elemental substance message. Starlink enactment for dependable calls and information is coming later, T-Mobile said. 

T-Mobile and Starlink sent and received the archetypal substance messages utilizing satellites backmost successful January 2024. In the months that followed, the FCC had fixed them permission to alteration outer texting successful definite locations truthful that radical could enactment connected successful hurricane-hit areas. Now, anyone tin effort it, but it would beryllium champion to use soon fixed the constricted spots. 

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