Apple included a number of satellite-based features in its latest iPhone models to help users keep contact in an emergency. Here's what they are, and how to use them if you have no signal.

All Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile customers with compatible Galaxy S25 or Pixel 9 smartphones can access emergency satellite texting. Just know that the carriers' satellite service is ...

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Cell towers in space are more capable than ever of helping people on the ground. ... That’s what its Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which has been around since 2022, ...

T-Mobile Starlink satellite-to-smartphone technology to bring critical emergency alerts to 500,000+ square miles of land currently unreachable with earth-based cell towers. Emergency alerts will ...

In a news release, Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile said the satellite service can be used to send texts to loved ones, deliver wireless emergency alerts and enable 911 texting.

Satellite telecommunications will be especially useful in remote areas without access to cell towers. In the United States, there are about 500,000 square miles of land that are unreachable by ...

T-Mobile says it has successfully sent a test wireless emergency alert via a Starlink satellite. T-Mobile and SpaceX are also building a satellite-to-smartphone service.

Satellite SOS is an emergency communication feature available on select Pixel devices. With Hurricane Milton approaching, here is how to use it if you lose cell service.