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If AT&T doesn't come on board soon, this is the one thing that can get me to change to T-mobile. This is very cool tech and I love that Starlink is pushing the envelope on what can be done with these phones. Keep on keepin' on, man!

As a person cruising around the Pacific side of Mexico full time where cellular coverage is very limited, I think this is a tremendous improvement for providing another communication source in the event of an emergency. Of course providing voice and data use would be even better. Direct to satellite communication via my cell phone would be a much better solution than my archaic and buggy IridiumGo! and the limited functionality of my InReach Mini 2.

As a starlink user all the way in Jamaica, im very happy about this development

I am a cross country truck, driver, and through the years. I have tested many different companies and honestly Verizon has the most coverage. Definitely not the cheapest, but they always had the most. I was hoping Elon was going to come out with his phone and I was going to get one to try, yes I have been an apple guy for years but honestly I imagine Elon has a better thought process on the future of technology than Apple, so I was still looking forward to his phone. Also I don’t want to run many different phones honestly, if there could be one phone that did it all, maybe I have to switch to T-Mobile I don’t know only time will tell I do have Starlink at the house, and I also have one in the Philippines

Here in Brazil we have a lot of deadzones on roads and starlink DTC would be a solution, we have a lot of celltowers with links provided by satellite (even starling) on rural areas, but still dead zones. I don’t expect anything over 3G speeds, but just enough to maybe keep a map working and allow to do a emergency call would be enough

My friend was in St Barts during 2023 New Years Eve and was traveling on a Yacht thru all the islands while Live Streaming on a Starlink for 2 weeks straight. He managed to stream with no problems at all and constantly had a high bitrate. That gave me enough confidence to believe Starlink is the real deal and we should be grateful that Elon is responsible for this and making it easy for people in remote areas to have good reliable internet

I used your video yesterday to purchase service from a starlink roam system in NC. Thank you for your expertise with starlink, going up in 2 weeks from Florida

Your phone doesn't lose GPS connectivity just because it loses cellular connectivity. It just loses data for map downloading and if you had already downloaded the map you wouldn't have that problem

Field researcher that uses starlink here. It's amazing service and I might have to consider switching my phone service as well.

I worked for AST Space building the bluebird sattelite constellation. They were building 5G sattelites that work with sprint I believe. Don't quote me. I worked on the solar panel and array deployment assembly. I was responsible for mixing adhesives and figuring out what would and wouldn't work. I knew starlink would quickly outpace them.

Could happen sooner if the regulators would get out of Elon’s way - hopefully more consumers will stand behind him and support him vicariously at the ballot box.

I purchased the iPhone 14 Pro with satellite communications so adding phone calls and video calls would be great and then add internet access and it’s a full service package to help humans create more to help others. 😊❤

This sounds like great news!! I moved from Comcast’s/Xfinity internet services to Starlink Satellite Internet and we are MUCH MORE Happier with the speed of service and virtually no buffering at all (once I had moved the dish to its permanent spot on the roof). Even though the speed test say they are slower than what I was receiving via Comcast cable internet I can assure you the user end experience is much faster. I did also add my own modem so I can choose what kinds of internet usage gets priority and believe this helps a lot. I use an ASUS GT-AX11000 PRO and it has many great features for those that have a little more advanced knowledge of computers but don’t let that intimidate you as there are so many useful videos online like many of yours @JCristina!! Keep up the great work!

This is a great innovation specially to a place where super typhoons are very common. In my country, cell towers usually take a few months to be fully operational again after a massive hit by super typhoon. Life is boring without internet while waiting for the service provider to repair the cell towers..😅

It is possible to use the GPS of a cell phone when not connected to a cellular network. However, you must preload a separate app and maps. The cell signal is only used to speed up GPS acquisition through the SUPL network.

I have T-Mobile and I’ve traveled to 13 countries in 11 US states this year. My cell phone worked everywhere except Tennessee. I’m planning on moving there so the service might be useful to me.

If you have ever seen a 3D map of Starlink satellites, this news sounds huge. This is something from old school sci-fi universe.

Elon has really accomplished some amazing feats.

Being able to use the same network in every country you go to will make travelling cheaper and easier than it is at the moment.

Direct to cell is fantastic. I’m beginning to feel like I ended up in a Star Trek movie. I’m sure glad I am not in a position of trying to compete with Elon Musk.

JC love the way you are on top Starlink and enjoy your shows but please remember that your cell phones have GPS built into them and will still give you navigation with no cellular connectivity. Even in the wilds of Florida.

Can anyone say *_STAR TREK COMMUNICATOR???_* The BIG question that I have is, *_HOW MUCH WILL IT COST???_* Remember this, *_IT WILL BE EXTENDING YOUR ELECTRONIC LEASH TO EVERYPLACE THAT YOU GO!!!_*

Using a standard phone to establish a signal at the satellite's altitude is impossible. Three decades ago, we utilized the 450 MHz band in mobile phones, as it proved optimal for covering extensive distances, particularly with widely spaced antennas. Moreover, achieving longer distances demanded a considerable wattage, accompanied by high radiation levels from the phones. I'm curious about the wattage required for data communication to satellites. Contemporary satellite phones feature substantial antennas, and it's worth noting that Starlink satellites orbit at a similar altitude to Leo satellites.

@16:51 Smartphones are equipped with a GPS receiver that can receive signals from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and have always been able to leverage raw/direct GPS signals without assistance (A-GPS) from local providers.

I could imagine such a service working outdoors and then indoors with Wi-Fi.

Living in New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains means LOTS of very dead spots. This would provide me with a simple and easy way in case of emergencies while camping and hiking. Thanks for the update. Can't wait until it's available for general public.

Sounds amazing! For us internet is not a luxury its a necessity,as out 4 year old daughter us autistic, and when out and about , specilay near beaches etc,the internet is virtually non existence. With out it she gets very stressed . Last time.e this happend we had a 6hr meltdown she got that stressed :( so this is really good news. Can't wait :D

Great news! Go Starlink!!!

This'll be especially useful for those on long cruise ship journies. Soon cruise lines will be able to partner with Starlink and T-Mobile to provide a revolutionary experience in terms of cell sevice and high speed insternet on cruise ships.

As a regular traveling grandma that travels through the mountains (camps there too) to see family...this would be awesome! I have T-Mobile .

Here in Big Sur ATT wants to discontinue copper service on the coast... We have so many visitors and emergency prolblems that StarLink would be a life saver....

In Australia we have most of the country that "isn't" covered with any mobile service. I have many blank spots just driving to the city some 2 1/2 hours away (let alone around here locally!) I also often travel remotely & have been looking for something that is not only cost effective but reliable (something my HF isn't!!!) let alone the Starlink internet on the go!! WoW! That's definitely NOT cheap!!😥

This is great news for Australia 🇦🇺 👍

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Since I spend a lot of time in the backwoods this would be a major addition to the tools you have for assistance or communication with others. Radios are great but have limitations.

This would be good for making an SOS of MAYDAY MAYDAY call if you have an injury or mishap in an empty wild area. Walking on the hills or becoming disorientated in woodland areas. Be good for small boat sailors on the coast and oceans. Mapping would be good too with your location and exit routes.

Pretty cool service! First I've heard of it and I am a tech guy.

Going to be great.such a great deal. Whenever I want from wherever. Love it!

For those who are not on metrics...550Km is about 341.75 miles.

Very exited about data. Considered Dat phone but will gladly sign up for this. Need for property!

This is a major reason I switched from AT&T to Tmobile

Just because the signal is coming from a satellite, it doesn't mean it is a lot of power. Its simply a directional beam antenna pointed down, hence the cones of coverage. Don't need a lot of power to talk from the ground to satellite. The high gain antenna allows the same devices to be used, and compensates for the distance between them. The cell phones don't need to send max power to use them either.

As for living in a rural area area our service no matter what provider we go with we might get one bar. The cell towers are located along the interstates to provide service to the cities. It's like, the hell with the country folks....

Getting excited I've been following Starlink satellites connection good I'm with Tmobel can't wait..

Assuming your existing phone can work on PCS (not all phones physically can use those bands and channels) then the phone will still need to have Starlink added as a roaming service provider. That will probably need to be done manually, as cellular providers stop providing OTA upgrades generally after two years. And there will probably have to be an OS or app upgrade, to tell the phone to use--and pay-- for Starlink roaming. Not quite automatic coverage. Although 2025 phones may have it built in, and an incentive to upgrade phones.

Cool!

JC , We have the smaller dish but used Starmount to install on our Bimini on our boat. Would be great to be able to plug modem directly into our 12v system. Suggest the offer a patch cord to convert. Great show, Chris

I love it, especially for those in rural and undeveloped areas around the world. It'll be a giant leap for those folks who want connectivity like many of us already have, such as my 40 to 120 mbps landline internet. Will I change to satellite Internet any time soon? Probably not, since it will likely be more expensive. But, for many, it'll be a God Send.

So mini sat antenna for house and car truck here we go not bad!

Thanks for this information I appreciate you taking this time to provide it

Elon being a major player in EVs, solar power, battery storage, Neuralink, SpaceX and Twitter as well as being one of the richest people in the world, he can pretty much control the world. Especially if he'll now have access to everyone who signs up to this. Yes, it can help people out, but it can be used nefariously too.

Great Video, thanks for your hard work and expertise ! Very exciting news !

Sounds cool as long as it’s not too pricey

No satellite signals at my place ever towers can't reach me either I do everything at work 😂

My thoughts are that I had better buy a Faraday bag for my phone!!!! 😆

Excellent! Think of the possibilities in disaster areas. Satellite phones are outdated and bulky. Military and civil first responders will be given the gift of communication and aid worldwide. Bring this onboard ASAP.

17:30 We don’t need cellular networks for GPS 😅 All we need to have is maps stored locally on mobile phone. iOS 17.1 supports this feature.

Elon's talent, giving credit to the team he has assembled around him, is navigating the regulatory morass which locks business as usual in for decades. It's a sad fact that milking profits from some idea or level of technology has a stagnating effect.

Sounds good sir hopin to hook on from Suva fiji islands

Motorola was going to do this in the '80s. But they stayed analog when cell phones came out.At that time they had 85% of all mobile phone business. They could of owned the world!

I forgot to mention that I love your tech vids! Thanks for doing this......

Absolutely amazing tech! I wonder what they will do with pricing, if anything. Voice communications will be interesting. Will it always grab the satellite over a tower if you are outdoors? Will it be able to switch from tower to satellite to tower and vice versa with no detectable difference? If Musk's companies are in the game I have no doubt it will come to fruition, just not as fast as he or us would like. Great work and thank you for a great channel.

So I wonder if 911 (or equivalent emergency numbers worldwide) will work the same way as terrestrial networks? That would mean you can call for help even if you're not a T-mobile customer, or don't even have a SIM card in the phone. That's definitely a great public service.

Wow I didn't knew that about Entel in Chile 😮 greetings from Chile and using Starlink 😌

I will greatly benefit from this when I’m in the mountains in the Philippines…🤙🏼

My father had a satellite phone in the 1980s.

Very Cool. Elon is a hero 💖💖💖

Satellite narrow cone beam, the power may not be as much as you think. The standard cell phone's power as to be strong enough to be received by the satellite.

I'm here in the Arizona desert where I have had no TMobile service. After watching your video I turned of the wifi (Starlink) and got a 4g four bar signal and made a phone call to my wife on her Verizon with not problems. I don't know if this was a fluke or are the satellites starting to work. Thanks

as I live the high desert of n/w NM we have many canyons with non existing service & with many hundreds of people working in the oil & gas industry it can be vert dangerous to be out there. I know as I spent a couple decades in it myself. @ 1 point I had the idea of building a network of tethered blimp based antenna areas to allow for service in these type of areas. it could be cheaper in the short term at least. Allowing for the fact that air traffic could avoid hitting the blimps & tethering cables.

A very long time coming, I had a globalstar 12 years ago.

Absolutely fascinating

Would be cool if Starlink starts to act as their own cell service provider, I refuse to use T-Mobile and I hate AT&T

Gps is not dependent on cell service. Gps units (not cellphones) work in central Florida.

I have used GPS on my iPhone on airplane mode while on a commercial jet plane. The phone knows where it is (I have to have a window seat and hold the phone up to the window.) You can only see the “base map” so you can’t see streets. You can also use a gps app and get location, altitude and speed. This works on planes that have no internet access. So, other than not having a detailed street map, the phone is a proper gps.

I carry a Zoleo in the wilderness right now, to use my phone and data would be a dream come true !

While your phone won't know the difference between ground and sat links but a human will. Cell towers are instant transmission while sats will have the lag that comes with distance that the signal has to travel. It won't be as bad as to GEOS located sats but it still will happen. As for warnings about radiation, our portable/base unit sat phone had a warning label on the front of the antenna section warning not to stand in front of it when in use. The phone looked like a laptop with the number keys like a laptop and the antenna being the part where the screen would have been. And on the Comm Car for the President there was a warning sign as soon as you got on the roof of it. There there was an output of 3kW of RF signal so it could cook you like a microwave.

I spend a lot of time in the desert with zero cell service. I’ll trade in my AT&T account for T-Mobile when it gets closer to reality. I’d swap now if I wasn’t trapped by an AT&T upgrade contract.

I hope this is coming to Australia soon,

I think its a mistake to make new satellites more invisible. Think about it, every time someone posts online "What is that in the ski just after sunset", it causes a natural advertising for StarLink.

Either have a WiFi signal or be outside and you won’t need a cellular provider at all in 2025.

I live in a mountainous rural area and have no cell service on my road, so it would be nice to have a cell connection once again, especially for emergency use. I lose my power and landline phone several times a year from falling trees. It would be nice to have radio & TV reception too, but that doesn't seem as likely. The bottom line will be the additional cost.

When you say, “GPS connectivity”, are you referring to maps? As a cellphone GPS chip engineer, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the phone listens directly to the GPS (actually it’s GNSS) satellites and computes the position, velocity, and time of the phone with or without access to a cellular network. Without a cellular network connection, the initial availability of GNSS may be delayed by 1 to 2 minutes. The maps are a different story. While they could be kept resident on the phone, they are not. I’m not sure how much space it would take for your state, for instance, but you would also have to download map updates at some frequency.

I never heard of this. I guess in the future flagships will add a revised hardware that allows for a broader band and the satelites would also evolve to achieve actual internet from satelite direct to phones and this would become the norm like gps and wifi and 4G is today

Amazing news. Thanks.

I still keep a proper ATLAS with me so I know where the heck I am. It's for the bigger roads, doesn't have every new development (subdivision) in it but man if the power goes down and I'm out in the middle of nowhere I can still get my ass home!

Thank you for this informative post!

Grilled was the right word, they will grill the whole earth, and you can't escape.

Ive had GPS on my phone for years. Im off grid often. No comm but it does locate

Sammy is gonna need to make a passive repeater so as you’re sitting in your car driving across the country with no cell coverage, you can redirect a signal to the sky

The potential impact on emergency services is dramatic. Imagine a hurricane damaged area having Starlink connectivity while the area infrastructure is destroyed. A T-Mobile hot spot could give everyone immediate connectivity.

From radio frequency path loss prospectus the average cell phone is designed to send a signal a few miles. I dont see how it can connect 500 miles up without a directional ground antenna.

Those hiking IRL streams are gonna be the new meta for YT content

So will the phones have to transmit at a higher power output reducing battery life when communicating with a satellite.

It sould work inside also...just a small antenna and repeater.

I'm excited. I'm in an area that has a LOT of dead zones for cell service. But as an old guy who is technologically challenged ... would this work in the house if I had an external cell antenna? Or is it only direct to phone?

Your phone always knows exactly which Tower it is connected to, i guarantee it will know when it is connected to a satellite. These are not dumb phones.

Bit more to a proper GPS in am 18 wheeler vs software available to a phone... Route matters, the software on your phone doesnt know where trucks arent allowed, where the GPS us truckers do. Its not just connectivity.

Dave, I couldn't say anything more than you. I agree with everything you say. We are done. Strong delusion in the land. I will fly the flag of the Confederacy.