Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has launched the first batch of Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability that will enable mobile coverage anywhere on earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe six Starlink satellites on this mission with Direct to Cell capability will further global connectivity and help eliminate dead zones,\u201d SpaceX founder Musk tweeted Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Musk added that this will allow mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth.<\/p>\n
He, though, said the direct-to-cell satellites capability only \u201csupports 7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular networks\u201d.<\/p>\n
The latest developments come when Starlink is poised to receive a GMPCS permit soon from the government to launch satellite broadband services in India.<\/p>\n
India has also been considering a recent proposal of top broadband-from-space players, Jio Satellite Communications (Jio\u2019s satellite arm) and Bharti-backed Eutelsat OneWeb to provide mobile satellite services via enabled smartphones.<\/p>\n
Last month, billionaire Musk\u2019s private space venture was reportedly granted approval to test direct-to-cell calls between Starlink satellites and regular mobile phones. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had approved SpaceX\u2019s request for the new satellite technology for a duration of six months that will involve 2,000 test devices and 840 satellites using airwaves in partnership with T-Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has launched the first batch of Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability that will enable mobile coverage anywhere on earth. \u201cThe six Starlink satellites on this mission with Direct to Cell capability will further global connectivity and help eliminate dead zones,\u201d SpaceX founder Musk tweeted Wednesday. Musk added that this will allow mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth. He, though, said the direct-to-cell satellites capability only \u201csupports 7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}