{"id":174331,"date":"2023-10-17T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-details-starlink-for-phones-plan-launching-in-2024"},"modified":"2023-10-17T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:22:24","slug":"spacex-details-starlink-for-phones-plan-launching-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-details-starlink-for-phones-plan-launching-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX details Starlink-for-phones plan, launching in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-details-starlink-for-phones-plan-launching-in-2024.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starlink\u2019s website update is revealing a bit more about its plans for a satellite-delivered cell phone service. The new page for \u201cStarlink Direct to Cell\u201d promises \u201cubiquitous coverage\u201d from \u201ccellphone towers in space\u201d that will work over bog-standard LTE. The current timeline claims there will be text service starting in 2024, voice and data in 2025, and \u201cIoT\u201d service in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Today satellite phone connectivity still requires giant, purpose-built hardware, like the old-school Iridium network phones. If you\u2019re only looking for emergency texting, you can also make do with Apple\u2019s introduction of the barely there connectivity paradigm, requiring being inside a connectivity window, holding up a phone, and following a signal-targeting app. Starlink wants to bring full-blown space connectivity to normal smartphone hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink\u2019s website update is revealing a bit more about its plans for a satellite-delivered cell phone service. The new page for \u201cStarlink Direct to Cell\u201d promises \u201cubiquitous coverage\u201d from \u201ccellphone towers in space\u201d that will work over bog-standard LTE. The current timeline claims there will be text service starting in 2024, voice and data in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174331","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\/174331","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\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}