Starlink direct-to-cell could be on track to launch next year

21 October 2023
SpaceX is ramping up its satellite launches to bring enough units online for texting coverage in 2024.

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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2023Just wondering, do you have WiFi at home? Do you use a cell... moreYour point is? This doesn't prove anything. All you're saying is because I use it, that means it doesn't matter that it hasn't been tested. That doesn't prove anything or do anything but legitimize my interest in the technology being safety tested. Yes, I do have those things at home. I definitely want to know if it's safe more if I'm using it.

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    • 24 Nov 2023

    PhoneFreak45, 22 Oct 2023Great, more signals blasting our brains with no testing to ... moreJust wondering, do you have WiFi at home? Do you use a cellphone? If so, you're constantly exposed to these frequencies. Non-ionizing radiation, ffs.

      Anonymous, 23 Oct 2023There was some research, lacking peer review, that posited ... moreThis comment just feels like government propaganda. It's just giving a variety of reasons for why the little research that's been done is incorrect, and associating it with things people plugged into the propaganda machine would think are conspiracy theories, therefore would come to the conclusion that the non peer reviewed study is but a conspiracy. I know the substances you're talking about, and the two main ones happen to work quite well if you stop listening to the media and actually look at research instead of bought and paid for opinion pieces. I mean, drink the kool aid if you want, but you're not going to convince people capable of critical thinking that something is bad because of an arbitrary association you've made between it and things the media has labelled as conspiracy theory. Absolutely ridiculous. Have a nice day.

        Like we havent enough metal and other waste in orbit around our planet since first soviet satelite Sputnik 1 entered hyperspace 4.10.1957

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          • 23 Oct 2023

          PhoneFreak45, 22 Oct 2023Worse yet, no one's even tried to determine the long t... moreThere was some research, lacking peer review, that posited evidence that ultra small wavelets of RF could actually funnel into human hair follicles, thereby interfacing directly into the nerve endings near the base of the hair and skin pores. So, some thought 5G frequencies, that were once used to detect moisture ionisation at distances from station to weather systems around the hemisphere, were possibly getting received as broadcast waves ingressing ihto the human tactile nervous system.

          This came at a time of the new plague, which some claimed exhibited odd tactile sensations among many other unheard of sick effects. But, a lot of the weird skin sensations could probably be described in terms side effects of badly conceived home remedies mixed with unrecommended over-the-counter drugs, that may have offered relief in years past illnesses, but were now bad meds for treating the epidemic.

          Really, no one perceived phone messages getting in their hair.

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            Anonymous, 22 Oct 2023L O L Most people don’t use the call feature anymore ... moreThen why do phones have that CALL option?
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            You don't even know the meaning of that word COMMUNICATION, little kid.
            Whether anyone use internet, wifi, sms, call, waving hands or sending pegion or letters or anything they are communicating.
            Even you wrote this STUPID comment is because you were communicating.

            Every letter, word, sentence, numbers, signs are insurumenrs of communication.
            Civilization is there because of communication and without that individuals will need to visit some random garden of eden to pluck fruit and eat, if luck is there.
            🤓

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              • 23 Oct 2023

              Anonymous, 22 Oct 2023L O L Most people don’t use the call feature anymore ... moreU these days kids barely knows this world

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                • 23 Oct 2023

                Anonymous, 22 Oct 2023L O L Most people don’t use the call feature anymore ... moreMost people don't use the calling feature on a PHONE? Everyone I know has made a phone call before. In fact, I don't know a single person who has never placed a call.

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                  • 23 Oct 2023

                  Starlink aka StarX is full of limitations, prerequisites and conditions besides high expenses covered by consumers.

                    Anonymous, 22 Oct 2023So true. No one can say the long term effects of these things. Worse yet, no one's even tried to determine the long term effects.

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                      • 22 Oct 2023

                      PhoneFreak45, 22 Oct 2023Great, more signals blasting our brains with no testing to ... moreSo true. No one can say the long term effects of these things.

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                        • 22 Oct 2023

                        This Developing Era Creates Worries In My Head . More Diseases Will Come In Like Cancer

                          Great, more signals blasting our brains with no testing to see if it's safe. Gotta love it.

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                            • 22 Oct 2023

                            tupperware, 22 Oct 2023satellite communication for the masses is a game changer on... moreL
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                            Most people don’t use the call feature anymore
                            Game changer my a
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                              Thanks Elon... For making satellite internet... Great Again!. Elon's helping the world and many folks are ungrateful. Tesla may not be perfect, but Elon's trying to get there. Spacex rockets land by itself, without wings. Even NASA didn't bother doing something like that. I want the Starship to send us to Mars soon! Elon is helping humanity!

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                                • 22 Oct 2023

                                holy based elon musk and his space pollution with his crappy satellites

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                                  • 22 Oct 2023

                                  UNKNOWN soldier , 22 Oct 2023UselessLooks like GSMArena article, "T-Mobile and SpaceX. . .", from August 26, 2022, says coverage by T-Mobile/Starlink will be about 1000 to 2000 phones.

                                  Are those numbers really seemingly that small?

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                                    • 22 Oct 2023

                                    satellite communication for the masses is a game changer only elon musk can deliver

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                                      Useless