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SpaceX Starlink Is Ready to Provide Global Direct to Cell Service

By Brian Wang

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Dec 05, 2024
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SpaceX has completed 24 planes of 13 sats per plane at a 53 deg inclination for the Direct to Cell constellation. Once raised to 360 km, it will be plugged in to service.

Direct to Cell is open for business for any telco in the world that wants to eliminate dead zones for text and then data in their country.

@TMobile and several other companies have alr…

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