FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones
(Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:00AM (BeauHD)
from the red-light-green-light dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/27/028219/fcc-approves-t-mobile-spacex-license-to-extend-coverage-to-dead-zones
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The FCC said it has [1]approved a license for T-Mobile and SpaceX's Starlink to provide supplemental coverage to cover internet dead zones. Reuters reports:
> The license marks the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator collaborating with a wireless carrier to provide supplemental telecommunications coverage from space on some flexible-use spectrum bands allocated to terrestrial service. The partnership aims to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas and eliminate "dead zones."
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> T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a partnership [2]in 2022 and in January the first set of satellites supporting the partnership was [3]launched into low-Earth orbit with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. "The FCC is actively promoting competition in the space economy by supporting more partnerships between terrestrial mobile carriers and satellite operators to deliver on a single network future that will put an end to mobile dead zones," said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-approves-t-mobile-spacex-license-extend-coverage-dead-zones-2024-11-26/
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/08/26/0855207/spacex-and-t-mobile-plan-to-connect-mobile-phones-to-satellites-boost-cell-coverage
[3] https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/01/06/0532229/spacex-has-launched-starlinks-first-direct-to-smartphone-satellites
> The license marks the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator collaborating with a wireless carrier to provide supplemental telecommunications coverage from space on some flexible-use spectrum bands allocated to terrestrial service. The partnership aims to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas and eliminate "dead zones."
>
> T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a partnership [2]in 2022 and in January the first set of satellites supporting the partnership was [3]launched into low-Earth orbit with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. "The FCC is actively promoting competition in the space economy by supporting more partnerships between terrestrial mobile carriers and satellite operators to deliver on a single network future that will put an end to mobile dead zones," said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-approves-t-mobile-spacex-license-extend-coverage-dead-zones-2024-11-26/
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/08/26/0855207/spacex-and-t-mobile-plan-to-connect-mobile-phones-to-satellites-boost-cell-coverage
[3] https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/01/06/0532229/spacex-has-launched-starlinks-first-direct-to-smartphone-satellites
Dead zone (Score:2)
by dsgrntlxmply ( 610492 )
From Cities of Salt, Abdelrahman Munif trans. Peter Theroux, upon an oil crew's demonstration of the telephone to a sheik, the sheik remarks "Can this marvelous instrument be used to speak with all manner of absent persons, even the dead?" Approximate quote from memory.
I imagine ... (Score:2)
by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )
> FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones
... Stephen King and Christopher Walken will be thrilled. :-)
Re: (Score:2)
> hows it feel that the majority of American's don't believe the lies, hatred, and Nazi of the left?
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