Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone

Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone by martyvis on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:38PM (#34157596)

I know nothing of your own situation, but having personally deployed fully working and operational WiFi for a 10000 plus seat stadium, various other campuses, but also seeing cell phones work in your pocket moving in a car or in a big city shopping centre is amazing. Even the Starlink stuff that is already deployed.

Anyway let's wait and see - I'm pretty sure T-Mobile wouldn't have signed on for something that is just a pipedream

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Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone by dmitrygr on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:58PM (#34157679)

> I'm pretty sure T-Mobile wouldn't have signed on for something that is just a pipedream

Las Vegas and a few other cities did, from the same salesman: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel...

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Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone by pontilanda on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:20AM (#34158424)

> This would amaze anyone from before the 70s.

I'm not saying that it's impossible, I'm just pointing out your smugness at the fact that it's not common knowledge.

> the Starlink stuff

You mean the stuff that requires a large, hot disc on your roof and therefore not in your pocket? Are we talking about the same things there?

> I'm pretty sure T-Mobile wouldn't have signed

You trust big companies too much, they make mistakes all the time.

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Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone by katbyte on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:00AM (#34158679)

Takes a much bigger radio to get the bandwidth for a starlink, 100mbs. Texting is on the order of bps. Garmin inreach mini is around the size of a tictac box and can send and receive texts.

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