[NetMageSCW]

Only for companies that choose to make or support phones with Iridium connectivity included, as opposed to AST and Starlink targeting existing phones.

[lxgr]

Kind of: Phones will probably need some Iridium-specific RF hardware (unless their existing baseband and amplifiers happen to cover the band it uses), but the baseband and signaling stack won’t be proprietary anymore if I understand it correctly.

Several mass-market phones already are IoT-NTN compatible, e.g. Google’s Pixel line.