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If you are right, T-Mobile's effort to get Apple onboard with making the necessary changes to separate iMessage payload from regular cell data on these special
by bhauer 4y ago
If you are right, T-Mobile's effort to get Apple onboard with making the necessary changes to separate iMessage payload from regular cell data on these special low-bandwidth space-cells could be a challenge.
- fragmede 4y agoNot really. Apple gives T-Mobile the hostnames/IP addresses they use for iMessage, and T-Mobile configures their APN to only allow connections to those addresses. There's a lot that happens on the backend for cell data to work that consumers don't see.
- jahlove 4y agoThey need to know more about the payload, so that they don't try to upload a video through starling, for instance.
- vineyardmike 4y agoAlready solved on in-flight wifi.
- vineyardmike 4y agoThey figured it out for the free inflight wifi that allows messaging.
- yurishimo 4y agoThat isn't anything special. Every smartphone can send SMS over wifi. You need to connect to the in-flight wifi to use the service. The router on the plane has a hole in the firewall that allows unpaid users to access the specific HTTP server to send and receive SMS messages. Absolutely nothing special about it.
- rlt 4y agoEventually this would be no different: Starlink can provide (firewalled) data service to iPhones to support messaging apps. Speculation is that initially there would be a small number of satellites periodically passing overhead, leading to the 30 minute send/receive times, and likely not supporting non-SMS messaging apps well.
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