Note: Registration spots are still available.
T-Mobile is offering
T-Mobile Postpaid Wireless Service Plan Customers to participate in
T-Mobile's Starlink Satellite Text Messaging Beta Testing program launching in early 2025 for
Free when you complete the registration form on the linked page. A compatible smartphone will be required (most modern phones qualify).
Thanks to community member
desterpot for finding this deal.
- Note: Only a limited number of openings to beta test satellite-powered messaging are available.
T-Mobile Business customers can register
here.
Service Details:
- In areas without cell service, your T-Mobile phone connects to Starlink satellites.
- Starlink's direct to cell technology acts like a cellphone tower in space, integrating with T-Mobile's network almost anywhere you can see the sky.
- Coming soon, you'll be able to send and receive satellite-powered text messages, with plans to pursue voice and data coverage next.
From the FAQ section:
- What do I need to do after signing up? Not a thing. T-Mobile will provide regular updates on progress to all that have registered. And then you will receive a notification with all the details you need when you are admitted to the beta.
- How much will it cost? T-Mobile Starlink is free during the beta test. T-Mobile will provide more details about the commercial service at launch.
- Will all phones work with the beta test? In time, T-Mobile Starlink is expected to work with most modern mobile phones. During the beta, to ensure a great customer experience T-Mobile is optimizing the experience on select smartphones and will expand the beta to more customers and phones as more satellites launch. We'll provide more details on optimized phones when we open the beta in early 2025.
- Currently 330 satellites have been launched (with more scheduled).
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Verizon and AT&T are working with ASTS currently as well
In less than (2) yrs timeframe....dead zones and post-storm disaster outages will be a thing of the past
This is most impressive for TMO, in my opinion. What this company has become in less than a decade should be studied as a business case at Harvard Business School. For some perspective, this is T-Mobile's Coverage Map from 2015
https://www.tmonews.com/2015/02/t...f75/?amp=1
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People don't understand how much of a difference he has and will make on humanity.
Starlink is amazing. I own two for two rentals I own because it's the only good option. Pays for itself because otherwise, these two rentals would be impossible to rent out.
Never once had a complaint. Setup is super easy.
In time, T-Mobile Starlink is expected to work with most modern mobile phones. During the beta, to ensure a great customer experience we are optimizing the experience on select smartphones and will expand the beta to more customers and phones as more satellites launch. We'll provide more details on optimized phones when we open the beta in early 2025.
My guess would be that answer includes cruise ships as they would operate outside the US and you would roam on the ships network so it wouldn't be looking for the sat connection. I don't read this as we keep you connected to avoid roaming charges, I read this as when nothing else is available, and you're within our boundaries, you can try to connect.
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