{"id":166765,"date":"2023-07-02T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/spacexs-starlink-will-offer-satellite-access-for-t-mobile-users"},"modified":"2023-07-02T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:28:17","slug":"spacexs-starlink-will-offer-satellite-access-for-t-mobile-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/spacexs-starlink-will-offer-satellite-access-for-t-mobile-users","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starlink will offer satellite access for T-Mobile users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starlink-will-offer-satellite-access-for-t-mobile-users2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has announced a plan to give T-Mobile customers direct access to the Starlink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/satellite-mega-constellations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">satellite constellation<\/a>, ensuring they\u2019ll have mobile coverage nearly everywhere in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is really a massive game changer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-direct-service-smartphones-t-mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during a live event at SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in Texas. \u201cIn a nutshell, it\u2019s no more dead zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Cell coverage is widespread in the US, but there are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/news\/un-carrier\/t-mobile-takes-coverage-above-and-beyond-with-spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half a million square miles<\/a> \u2014 nearly twice the size of Texas \u2014 where you won\u2019t find a signal from any carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has announced a plan to give T-Mobile customers direct access to the Starlink satellite constellation, ensuring they\u2019ll have mobile coverage nearly everywhere in the US. \u201cI think this is really a massive game changer,\u201d said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during a live event at SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in Texas. \u201cIn a nutshell, it\u2019s no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166765","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}