Is this true? I've got startlink at home and you need a pretty large view of the open sky. Am I going to be able to receive or make a call while in a wooeded area, or indoors or anywhere else without a large view to the open sky? I'm wondering whether there's something in-between the satellite and your cell phone, like a cell tower.
Elon was posting about this the other day when the satellites were launched (13 of them I think). He said nothing extra will be required for your phone to work and it'll work anywhere in the world. Not sure about indoors. Of course your service provider needs to be on board and in the US only T Mobile is on board so far. It'll be up to them when and how they decide to incorporate it.
Think about how a GPS receiver works. Long range, low bandwidth. EBS messages will be cake to recieve. 911 calls available to everyone with 4G LTE phone per federal law. Elon did say that in good conditions, even low res video is possible.
Is this true? I've got startlink at home and you need a pretty large view of the open sky. Am I going to be able to receive or make a call while in a wooeded area, or indoors or anywhere else without a large view to the open sky? I'm wondering whether there's something in-between the satellite and your cell phone, like a cell tower.
Was thinking the same. Maybe with the more limited bandwidth of a single call, they need less sky access.
I can sorta see how the cell could receive if outdoors, but can it transmit up to the LEO satellites?
I don't know how it would work indoors.
Elon was posting about this the other day when the satellites were launched (13 of them I think). He said nothing extra will be required for your phone to work and it'll work anywhere in the world. Not sure about indoors. Of course your service provider needs to be on board and in the US only T Mobile is on board so far. It'll be up to them when and how they decide to incorporate it.
Yeah, but that means it's not direct from satellite to you phone, it goes through a cell carrier.
Think about how a GPS receiver works. Long range, low bandwidth. EBS messages will be cake to recieve. 911 calls available to everyone with 4G LTE phone per federal law. Elon did say that in good conditions, even low res video is possible.