SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed this week that its satellite broadband subsidiary Starlink will provide mobile phone Internet in the US exclusively to T-Mobile for just one year.
From then on, the service will be opened up to other mobile carriers, he added in a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this week.
“Starlink direct to mobile phone Internet is exclusively with T-Mobile in the US for the first year, then other carriers thereafter,” posted Musk. “We are starting off working with one carrier in each country, but ultimately hope to serve all carriers.”
Musk made the comments in reply to a post from SpaceX senior director of satellite engineering Ben Longmier, who was outlining the company’s direct-to-cell program, which recently added 26 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) via a pair of Falcon F9 rockets last month.
He added that the company now has 168 compatible Starlink satellites in orbit.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com
