Starlink deploys the first satellites with the capacity to provide cell phone coverage

Starlink has deployed the first satellites with the capacity to provide mobile coverage to offer the ‘Direct to Cell’ service, with which it ensures that global connectivity will be improved and “dead zones” will be eliminated, in order to allow the sending of messages this same year.

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Starlink CEO Elon Musk announced the second version of the satellite internet service in 2022, which would be capable of transmit directly to your users’ mobile phones, as if they were telephone towers from space with the eNodeB modem. So, he already anticipated a satellite prototype, Starlink 2.0, seven meters long and weighing 1.25 tons.

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Now, through SpaceX, a company to which Starlink belongs, the technology firm has shared that there are six satellites with the capacity to provide mobile coverage, which “will boost global connectivity and help eliminate dead zones,” as they have indicated. via X (former Twitter).

These six Direct to Cell satellites are part of the set of 21 that SpaceX deployed this Wednesday with a Falcon 9 rocket.

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These satellites are the ones that will allow “mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth,” he said. targeted Muskalthough at the moment it is a solution aimed at areas that do not have mobile connectivitysince they admit very large beams, about 7Mb per beam.

With these satellites, Starlink will be able to begin testing its service 4G/LTE mobile coverage via satellite, a technology that, according to the company’s plans, will allow users send text messages this year. Voice and data calling and smart device connectivity are expected by 2025.

Source: Elcomercio