Tmobile satellite communication

[Jerry Adams]

Anybody try Tmobile Satellite communicator?

Until July you can try the beta for free – https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

You sign up to get on a list, then they email you to get it turned on

It allows you to send messages with your phone when you’re out of cell range

After July it’s $10 a month

I wonder if works good

[Jerry Adams]

if you don’t enroll in the beta, after July, it’s $15 a month

so, I applied

I pay something like $10 a month for inreach mini

[Terran Terran]

I don’t want anything to do with starlink.

 

[David D]

Hey Jerry, hikingguy’s tested it out:

I can’t use this but I subscribe to his channel

[Jerry Adams]

starlink wouldn’t be my first choice

Bezos is supposedly going to have a bunch of satellites, maybe that would work

[Arthur]

Terran  +100  This group advocates conservation of our natural resources.  He is a HUGE polluter of space.

[Axel J]

I send texts on my I-Phone via satellite while backpacking no problem but not sure what satellite(s) they use. Share my location too. Sorry for the off topic reply.

[Jerry Adams]

I watched David’s youtube video.  That was really good.  (As opposed to problems identified with influencers)

He said he’s also evaluating skylo which is a competitor to starlink

He concluded the technology is immature.  About 40% of the time the message didn’t get through.  Sometimes a reply would get lost until he got back into cell phone range.  Maybe sending another message would cause the reply to get through…

I guess I’ll just use my inreach for a while.

I’ve never been an early adopter.  I hate debugging new products : )

[Terran Terran]

[Terran Terran]

Switch to StraightTalk. The money you save over using T-Mobile will pay for your inreach service.

[Jerry Adams]

Xfinity cell coverage – $12 per month for two phones.  Only 1G of data

[Terran Terran]

It looks like you can use the T-Mobile satellite service on any carrier and not just T-Mobile.

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