Ben Longmier
@longmier
Sr Director, Satellite Engineering @Spacex
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The Starlink mini is amazing. I’ve used mine at home, in a boat, in a small plane, out and about at a picnic table using my usual USB battery. @Starlink Direct to Cell (texting and lite data) is in beta in the US now and commercially live this summer. We are commercially live in New Zealand and Japan already, with many countries coming soon as well.
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With 400 @Starlink Direct to Cell sats launched, you can now send a text message from your phone via satellite within seconds at Northern US latitudes and Southern Australian and New Zealand latitudes.
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A huge thank you to our telco partners of @starlink that have taken an early bet on our Direct to Cell program. There are a good number of additional telcos standing by ready to test and then activate service in their countries, pending regulatory approval. 2025 will be the year that SpaceX and partner telcos eliminate dead zones and fill in disaster areas around the world with text and data service.
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