Starlink direct to mobile phone Internet is exclusively with @Tmobile in the US for the first year, then other carriers thereafter. We are starting off working with one carrier in each country, but ultimately hope to serve all carriers.
Elon Musk, August ’24
When T-Mobile‘s CEO Mike Sievert took to the stage at the SpaceX stomping ground in Texas with Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk two years ago to announce a dead spot network coverage partnership with the Starlink satellite connectivity service, Elon actually hinted that such a partnership will be open to anyone at some point.
The idea of the direct-to-cell connectivity service, for which SpaceX has already launched 168 dedicated satellites, is to cover dead spots that not only T-Mobile, but no other carrier has been able to blanket, such as areas in national parks with cell phone tower restrictions, or other hard-to-reach places.
