If the Elonphone can connect to starlink sattelites remotely and act as a sat phone giving you cell service anywhere on Earth free from telecom companies then it would be awesome. But that's a huge load added onto starlink and it would take more complex components then your avg phone that just connect to cell towers.
It requires no extra components in the phones. The satellites need a new 6m antenna array to make the connection using T-Mobile 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum. The antennas may also be able to receive 2.4GHz Wifi and Bluetooth signals.
I'm not a rocket scientist but I do know you can operate a sat phone on less than 1 watt. Or as I should have said , ping a message off a satilight and back for around a watt.
If the Elonphone can connect to starlink sattelites remotely and act as a sat phone giving you cell service anywhere on Earth free from telecom companies then it would be awesome. But that's a huge load added onto starlink and it would take more complex components then your avg phone that just connect to cell towers.
If anyone is gonna do it tho, it would be Elon.
And he can do orbital drops of the phones into oppressive countries.
Depends on if they believe it or not.
If you meme it, they will believe it
Nothing a few hot air ballons and blimps can't fix in the short while.
It requires no extra components in the phones. The satellites need a new 6m antenna array to make the connection using T-Mobile 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum. The antennas may also be able to receive 2.4GHz Wifi and Bluetooth signals.
https_www.rcrwireless.com/20220826/network-infrastructure/t-mobile-us-starlink-announce-spectrum-sharing-deal
I'm not a rocket scientist but I do know you can operate a sat phone on less than 1 watt. Or as I should have said , ping a message off a satilight and back for around a watt.