{"id":166475,"date":"2023-06-27T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/lynk-connects-palaus-off-grid-islands-with-satellite-texting"},"modified":"2023-06-27T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:22:50","slug":"lynk-connects-palaus-off-grid-islands-with-satellite-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/lynk-connects-palaus-off-grid-islands-with-satellite-texting","title":{"rendered":"Lynk connects Palau\u2019s off-grid islands with satellite texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lynk-connects-palaus-off-grid-islands-with-satellite-texting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellite-to-phone connectivity provider Lynk has <a href=\"https:\/\/lynk.world\/news\/lynk-PNCC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made its debut in Palau<\/a>, where the nation\u2019s hundreds of islands make traditional cell coverage difficult to achieve. The company\u2019s \u201ccell towers in space\u201d now cover the entire country \u2014 intermittently, but that\u2019s a lot better than nothing, and service will improve as more satellites are added to the constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Lynk is among the first of a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/28\/satellite-to-phone-race-heats-up-with-voice-calls-and-cross-canada-access\/\">new wave of direct satellite-to-phone providers<\/a>, replacing the bulky, dedicated satphones of yore by connecting ordinary mobile devices to low Earth orbit. It\u2019s difficult to engineer for many reasons, as you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s SOS has the most high-profile use case, with the distinguishing characteristic of having to actually point your phone at an unseen satellite, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/09\/16\/lynk-may-beat-starlink-and-apple-to-the-punch-as-fcc-approves-its-space-based-texting\/\">but Lynk\u2019s service<\/a> requires no special behavior by the user \u2014 it just works like a roving cell tower, connecting when it passes overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite-to-phone connectivity provider Lynk has made its debut in Palau, where the nation\u2019s hundreds of islands make traditional cell coverage difficult to achieve. The company\u2019s \u201ccell towers in space\u201d now cover the entire country \u2014 intermittently, but that\u2019s a lot better than nothing, and service will improve as more satellites are added to the constellation. [\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-166475","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\/166475","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=166475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}