Although this technology is slow, and for now T-Mobile (in the United States), will allow us, this, the intention of Elon Musk and its Starlink company, is that everyone receives this tool, with which you can Send messages and make calls (in the future), Without having coverage.
Everything is based on its satellites, which will allow the connection to establish even if we are, for example, in the middle of a mountain, surrounded by stones, and where the nearest antenna is too far to have some coverage.
Starlink in iOS 18.3
To be able to use it, it will be necessary have iOS 18.3 on our iPhoneand from there to be launched now, so if you do not have this version, despite meeting the rest of the requirements, you can not try it.
Anyway, it is in the test phase, so it would be randomly launching different users, which does not guarantee that you are one of them, although possibly, if everything works well, it will be enabled more.
This collaboration with T-Mobile allows users to send and receive satellite text messages in areas without cellular coverage. Although initially limited to text messagesit is expected that in the future it will be expanded to voice and data calls, something that, logically, requires greater connection, and although Starlink is trained for it, he prefers to launch it little by little.
This type of connection is very sporadic, since when you have coverage, it will not happen, so there should not be an overload in the satellites, except for a very generalized fall of a telephone company, for example.
Of course, to be able to send messages in this way, Your phone has to have contact with those satellitesthat is, direct or semi -direct vision with the sky, so if you are in a cave at 20 meters deep, it will not do miracles, and in this case you will not be able to send messages in any of the ways, something to take into account.
We do not know more about this service, which was initially going to be free, then with a cost, etc In case of having to pay previously, there will be many who do not, and do not realize how important it can be, until they are in an emergency situation, since this could save many lives, especially if you are going to the mountain usually.
And you, do you think it will be something revolutionary, or a type of technology that will barely be used, especially because people do not know or will never reach our countries, staying in evidence in the United States, as with many services? Leave us a comment with your opinion about it.
