Starlink Mobile is building something no carrier has ever done: one network that connects your phone from space and from the ground, giving every American coverage in places that have never had it
SpaceX is said to be seeking at least 80,000 U.S. cell tower sites, in talks with Crown Castle, right after agreeing to buy nationwide 800 MHz low-band spectrum and getting FCC approval for 15,000 next-gen direct-to-phone satellites
And the possibilities are incredible:
• Signal indoors, outdoors, in dead zones and everywhere in between
• Low-band 800 MHz that travels far and reaches deep inside buildings
• Gen2 satellites with more than 100x the bandwidth of the current generation
• Works with the phone already in your pocket
• Real competition for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
Starlink Mobile will be the first network operator to deploy both satellite and terrestrial spectrum, so coverage stops depending on where someone happened to build a tower
America is getting a 4th major carrier, and it starts in orbit
SpaceX is said to be seeking at least 80,000 U.S. cell tower sites, in talks with Crown Castle, right after agreeing to buy nationwide 800 MHz low-band spectrum and getting FCC approval for 15,000 next-gen direct-to-phone satellites
And the possibilities are incredible:
• Signal indoors, outdoors, in dead zones and everywhere in between
• Low-band 800 MHz that travels far and reaches deep inside buildings
• Gen2 satellites with more than 100x the bandwidth of the current generation
• Works with the phone already in your pocket
• Real competition for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
Starlink Mobile will be the first network operator to deploy both satellite and terrestrial spectrum, so coverage stops depending on where someone happened to build a tower
America is getting a 4th major carrier, and it starts in orbit
