{"id":160572,"date":"2023-03-18T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-fcc-agrees-to-help-spacex-t-mobile-offer-cell-phone-service-from-space"},"modified":"2023-03-18T18:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:22:34","slug":"the-fcc-agrees-to-help-spacex-t-mobile-offer-cell-phone-service-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-fcc-agrees-to-help-spacex-t-mobile-offer-cell-phone-service-from-space","title":{"rendered":"The FCC Agrees to Help SpaceX &amp; T-Mobile Offer Cell Phone Service From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fcc-agrees-to-help-spacex-t-mobile-offer-cell-phone-service-from-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week the FCC voted 4\u20130 to approve a new effort to help satellite providers like SpaceX offer wireless cell phone service from space. SpaceX\u2019s Starlink service already had a deal in place with T-Mobile to offer phone service in areas that currently does not have it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted today proposes a framework through which satellite operators collaborating with terrestrial service providers would be able to obtain FCC authorization to operate space stations on certain currently licensed, flexible-use spectrum allocated to terrestrial services. The Commission is proposing to add a mobile-satellite service allocation on some terrestrial flexible-use bands.\u201d The FCC said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-proposes-framework-facilitate-supplemental-coverage-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC went on to say that this service could \u201cserve a wireless provider\u2019s customers should they need connectivity in remote areas, for example in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert, Lake Michigan, the 100-Mile Wilderness, or the Uinta Mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the FCC voted 4\u20130 to approve a new effort to help satellite providers like SpaceX offer wireless cell phone service from space. SpaceX\u2019s Starlink service already had a deal in place with T-Mobile to offer phone service in areas that currently does not have it. \u201cThe Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted today proposes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160572","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=160572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}