[HN Gopher] SpaceX plans Starlink phone service, emergency backu...
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       SpaceX plans Starlink phone service, emergency backup, and low-
       income access
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-02-05 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | fiftyfifty wrote:
       | My first response was "Sweet, Starlink in a mobile phone!" but
       | this is just VoIP over the existing Starlink dish, which, while
       | cool, is not a huge surprise. SpaceX has not shrunk their
       | receiver into a mobile phone [yet]. As someone who frequently
       | goes out of cell phone range, I would love to see something like
       | SPOT or inReach over the Starlink network instead of Iridium,
       | maybe they can bring the price of these services down a little
       | bit more.
        
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