| ▲ | la64710 9 hours ago |
| This is already available in iPhone with their text based coverage: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120930 Probably they are using GSAT satellites. |
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| ▲ | modeless 8 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Apple's feature is not comparable. It is extremely low bandwidth and requires special hardware and holding the phone pointing in a certain direction. Starlink acts as a regular (albeit low bandwidth) 4G tower in space. |
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| ▲ | quailfarmer 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Starlink DTC is also very low bandwidth in this generation, it’s is a fundamentally similar RF link budget | | |
| ▲ | modeless 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Starlink DTC bandwidth is orders of magnitude higher than Apple's. | |
| ▲ | everfrustrated 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Starlink allows calling (Apple's can't) which requires a higher bandwidth by definition. Obviously it will never have the bandwidth of a local cell site, but doesn't need to to still be useful. |
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