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Aug 25 (Reuters) - U.S wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) will use Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's Starlink satellites to provide mobile users with network access in parts of the United States, the companies announced on Thursday, outlining plans to connect users' mobile phones directly to satellites in orbit.

The new plans, which would exist alongside T-mobile's existing cellular services, would cut out the need for cell towers and offer service for sending texts and images where cell coverage does not currently exist, key for emergency situations in remote areas.

The system will rely on the next generation of Starlink satellites which will have larger antennas allowing them to use customers' existing phones. However, those satellites will not be deployed until SpaceX can launch them from its new Starship rocket.

The new service is not planned to be operational until the end of 2023.

[www.reuters.com]

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That...sounds pretty cool, actually, if you enjoy travel away from population centers. I'm all for being off the grid when on vacation, but it's always good to have means to summon help in remote places.

This isn't necessarily a good thing. Many times it is the cellphone towers that bring fiber into rural areas. The wireless carriers pay to have the fiber run to a remote area and then everyone around them benefits. With this, they will just plop a dish down and everyone else in the community will have to do the same. Good for Starlink I guess.

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SpaceX recently posted plans to the FCC that they were planning to launch modified Gen2 StarLink satellites on Falcon9. I wonder if those will have this feature as well. Starship is likely a long way from regular service. I'd guess 2 years. They'll probably have a few launches from Boca Chica but it won't be until the launch facility at KSC is finished that Starship will really, ahem, take off.

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This isn't necessarily a good thing. Many times it is the cellphone towers that bring fiber into rural areas. The wireless carriers pay to have the fiber run to a remote area and then everyone around them benefits. With this, they will just plop a dish down and everyone else in the community will have to do the same. Good for Starlink I guess.

I could show you HUNDREDS of cases here locally, where places within SIGHT of that fiber-served cell tower have no internet service (and ironically, the cell service is so bad that it's unusable for a hotspot).

Starlink is a HUGE step towards people ACTUALLY HAVING internet.

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This isn't necessarily a good thing. Many times it is the cellphone towers that bring fiber into rural areas. The wireless carriers pay to have the fiber run to a remote area and then everyone around them benefits. With this, they will just plop a dish down and everyone else in the community will have to do the same. Good for Starlink I guess.

I could show you HUNDREDS of cases here locally, where places within SIGHT of that fiber-served cell tower have no internet service (and ironically, the cell service is so bad that it's unusable for a hotspot).

Starlink is a HUGE step towards people ACTUALLY HAVING internet.

I don't disagree, however, I think that if you can see fiber that is the problem to fix, not installing a dish. The Dish is absolutely perfect for places that will never get built out with traditional medium.

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