Starlink Direct to Cell

Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by slashdev on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:59PM (#37848788)

Likewise, this would be enough to replace my cell plan. I don’t need high bandwidth stuff, just text communications, PagerDuty, gmail. The rest I can do over Wi-Fi.

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by lxgr on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:57PM (#37849493)

Given the price per bit per second per square meter, I'd be surprised if this will be more economical for operators to provide in anything but the most rural areas.

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by arecurrence on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:04PM (#37849575)

You can get 1 year global plans from esimdb.com pretty affordably for this use case right now.

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by slashdev on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:48PM (#37850680)

Thanks, I’ll check them out

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by paulddraper on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:24PM (#37851659)

No Maps?

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by Scoundreller on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:50PM (#37852978)

Maps can be downloaded offline and directions calculated locally. Only really need updates for traffic (which could be broadcast, which I think some old gps receivers had)

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Re:Starlink Direct to Cell by slashdev on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:41PM (#37859574)

Yeah, I use offline maps. Lack of traffic info is sometimes an issue.

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