[bakies]

also all the flagship phones have emergency satellite connections now, so it's not even the emergency bit, it's just about having full broadband internet

[latchkey]

powered by... starlink. https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

[kotaKat]

and the hilarious part is if you're along the US-Canadian border (or in most of Maine), you're in this magical 1.9GHz PCS coordination zone that they can't provide T-Satellite service in, and provide basically zero information that that's a thing.

https://i.imgur.com/pagujRS.png

this is a map of the t-satellite coverage from the t-mobile coverage map, just the t-sat layer.

[bakies]

Apple's SOS features are going to go to AmazonLEO and are currently globalstar. Google's SOS goes to a geosync orbit. This is some t-mobile feature.