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SpaceX is getting ready to test its Starlink satellite-to-cell phone
service

Elon Musk previously announced the feature would come to T-Mobile
phones in 2023.
BOCA CHICA BEACH, TX - AUGUST 25: SpaceX founder Elon Musk and
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert on stage during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint
event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The two
companies announced plans to work together to provide T-Mobile
cellular service using Starlink satellites. (Photo by Michael
Gonzalez/Getty Images)
Michael Gonzalez via Getty Images
Sean Buckley
Sean Buckley|@seaniccus|March 13, 2023 2:18 PM

Last summer, Elon Musk and T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced
"Coverage Above and Beyond," a joint initiative that aimed to bring
Starlink satellite coverage compatible T-Mobile devices. Now, SpaceX
is getting ready to begin testing its satellite-to-cellular service.

During a panel at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition 2023,
SpaceX VP of Starlink enterprise sales Jonathan Hofeller said the
company had plans to "start getting into testing" its
satellite-to-cell service this year. "We're going to learn a lot by
doing -- not necessarily by overanalyzing -- and getting out there,
working with the telcos."

    Hofeller: SpaceX plans to "start getting into testing" its
    Starlink satellite-to-cell service "this year."

    -- Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) March 13, 2023

Hofeller didn't specifically say which Telco SpaceX was working with,
but the timeline certainly lines up with Musk's original vision for
the T-Mobile partnership. In August, he promised that Starlink V2
would launch in 2023 and would "transmit direct to mobile phones,
eliminating dead zones worldwide." At the time T-Mobile said the
service would give the carrier "near complete coverage" of most of
the United States, specifically highlighting areas that are
notoriously difficult to find a signal: National Parks, mountain
ranges, deserts and other remote locations.

Either way, the panel seemed optimistic about the future of
sat-to-cell technology. Lynk Global CEO Charles Miller said that
satellite cellular service has the potential to be the "biggest
category in satellite," and Iridium CEO Matt Desch sees cellular
satellite service as just the beginning. "Satellite should connect
everything everywhere," he said at the event, imagining the
technology connecting to computers, vehicles and more.

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