Elon Musk’s successful company SpaceX, It continues to work on the Starlink-based “Direct to Cell”, which brings internet to phones from space.
Today just below or Here An official X share that you can see was shared, using standard smartphones with no hardware changes. It was announced that the first X-centered video call was completed with the help of Starlink Direct to Cell satellites. In this regard, the company said, “System at the end of the year “We are excited to bring it to life together with T-Mobile.” said. Before this, a level reached in terms of speed had made a splash. CEO Elon Musk made by As we learned from the explanation With the system, a speed of 17 Mb/s was achieved with a Samsung smartphone model without any hardware changes. Then this speed It was announced that it was the highest speed ever achieved, the system really revealed great potential. If you missed it, the most important development in the past year regarding Starlink, which can provide high-speed internet from space, is Joint event by T-Mobile and SpaceX and there were important announcements made at the event.
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T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and CEO of SpaceX elon Muskespecially in the event we mentioned “satellite to cellular” It made a splash with its infrastructure. SpaceX’s new generation satellites, with the special equipment they carry, Capable of providing satellite internet directly to smartphones, eliminating dead zones around the world. This infrastructure will be combined with T-Mobile’s 5G network in the USA, thus providing coverage to almost every place in the country.
The infrastructure has not yet been opened to everyone, but the “Direct to Cell” supported satellites sent are actively working and SpaceX engineers continue the tests. In fact, using this infrastructure in the past months Some posts were also made on X, owned by Elon Musk, which you can see below. The infrastructure, which will initially remain exclusive to certain countries, will only be used for text messages in 2024, Voice and data transfer will also be included in the process in 2025. Also in 2025 IoT Support will also be provided for devices. The Direct to Cell system, which will work with existing “LTE” supported smartphones without any modifications, will not offer high speeds at first, but it can make a big difference, especially in emergency situations.
First video call on @X completed through @Starlink Direct to Cell satellites from unmodified mobile phones!
We’re excited to go live with @TMobile later this year 🛰️🌎 pic.twitter.com/v4nA5B75EX
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 21, 2024
This post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space 🛰️
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 26, 2024
The SpaceX team just completed the first post on X from a phone to one of our Direct to Cell satellites!
This was the tree cover in a small valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier in the day when we were exchanging some DMs on X. https://t.co/KFl1fZ9pvH pic.twitter.com/pzveDbSn8P
— Ben Longmier (@longmier) February 26, 2024
SpaceX just achieved peak download speed of 17Mb/s from satellite direct to unmodified Samsung Android phone pic.twitter.com/JqPHmkriv0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2024