{"id":174170,"date":"2023-10-14T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-says-starlink-for-phones-will-be-available-in-2024"},"modified":"2023-10-14T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:28:08","slug":"spacex-says-starlink-for-phones-will-be-available-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-says-starlink-for-phones-will-be-available-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX says Starlink-for-phones will be available in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-says-starlink-for-phones-will-be-available-in-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The service was supposed to be launched in beta this year but has been pushed back after Starship has failed to reach orbit.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s satellite-powered mobile telephony service could be available in 2024, according to recent changes in the service provider\u2019s webpage. Direct to Cell will allow text, voice, and data services from Starlink\u2019s V2 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Launched more than 30 years ago, satellite-based telephone services are still as challenging to use as they were back then. With the advent of satellite-based internet services, thanks to Starlink, interest in telephony has increased again. Apple introduced it in their latest iPhone but limited it to emergency purposes and nothing beyond basic texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The service was supposed to be launched in beta this year but has been pushed back after Starship has failed to reach orbit. SpaceX\u2019s satellite-powered mobile telephony service could be available in 2024, according to recent changes in the service provider\u2019s webpage. Direct to Cell will allow text, voice, and data services from Starlink\u2019s V2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174170","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\/174170","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}