T-Satellite with Starlink is the first and only mobile and satellite network, and you can try it for free during beta, even ...

In the United States it’s easy to take cell reception for granted. With few exceptions, you can use your phone to text, call, and get online from pretty much anywhere in the country. Yet about 2 ...

The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting an interesting option next year: ordinary-looking cell phones that connect to a satellite ...

Starlink Completes Direct-to-Cell-Phone Satellite Constellation. ... 911 calls were routed to call centers based on the cell tower ... which is 1910–1915 MHz for uplink and 1990–1995 ...

That’s the point of spoofing a GSM tower with a satellite. Your regular phone thinks it’s within reach of a regular cell tower – which just so happens to reject phone calls, but you can ...

If satellite hacks interest you, how about reading our thread of posts on the recapture of ISEE-3, or maybe you’d like to listen for a lost satellite from the 1960s. Thanks [Kia] for the tip .

Phones will disconnect from a cell tower when they’re more than 21 miles (35 kilometers) away, and the satellites flying overhead will be 310 miles (500 kilometers) away.

A satellite measuring 693-square-feet beamed down a quick 4G LTE signal to smartphones in Hawaii. The tech could help fix coverage gaps.

Like a satellite phone, it works where cell phones cannot because it beams data directly to and from satellites orbiting Earth and isn't reliant on being in range of a cell tower. Traditional ...