{"id":128831,"date":"2021-10-10T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/itll-soon-be-possible-to-make-satellite-phone-calls-with-your-regular-phone"},"modified":"2021-10-10T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:22:47","slug":"itll-soon-be-possible-to-make-satellite-phone-calls-with-your-regular-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/itll-soon-be-possible-to-make-satellite-phone-calls-with-your-regular-phone","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2VttBtjNOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not all who wander are lost \u2013 but sometimes their cell phone reception is. That might change soon if a plan to project basic cell phone coverage to all parts of the globe comes to fruition. Lynk has already proven it can use a typical smartphone to bound a standard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMS\">SMS text message<\/a> off a low-earth-orbiting satellite, and they don\u2019t plan to stop there.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as Ubiquitilink, Lynk was founded a few years ago by Nanoracks founder Charles Miller and his partners but came out of \u201cstealth mode\u201d as a start-up in 2019. In 2020 they then used a satellite to send an SMS message from a typical smartphone, without requiring the fancy GPS locators and antennas needed by other, specially made satellite phones.<\/p>\n<p>The company continued its success recently by demonstrating a \u201ctwo-way\u201d link this week using a newly launched satellite, its fifth, called \u201cShannon.\u201d They\u2019ve also proved it over multiple phones in numerous areas, including the UK, America, and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all who wander are lost \u2013 but sometimes their cell phone reception is. That might change soon if a plan to project basic cell phone coverage to all parts of the globe comes to fruition. Lynk has already proven it can use a typical smartphone to bound a standard SMS text message off a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}