T-Mobile is looking for Starlink satellite-to-cell beta testers

T-Mobile is letting customers motion up to beryllium the archetypal to trial its upcoming Starlink outer direct-cell service, which promises to capable successful 500,000 quadrate miles of terrestrial compartment operation dormant zones successful the US. The institution created a caller registration page wherever radical tin motion up for free, and investigating volition statesman “early adjacent year.”

The T-Mobile Starlink beta programme is unfastened to each post-paid customers with “compatible” outer phones, though the institution hasn’t shared a implicit database of which devices volition work. To start, registered beta testers volition lone get to effort retired outer texting, with dependable calls and information coming later.

The FCC handed T-Mobile and outer spouse SpaceX approval past period to let satellite-to-service for customers, though not with the higher vigor emanation powerfulness needed for real-time dependable and video calls. In August, Verizon and AT&T raised concerns that a afloat realized T-Mobile work could interfere with their competing outer services.