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To summarize (please correct me if I'm wrong here): You see this being deployed to service every customer of the partnering mobile networks, wherever they may
by tpmx 3y ago
To summarize (please correct me if I'm wrong here):
You see this being deployed to service every customer of the partnering mobile networks, wherever they may be.
I see this being deployed to service those customers who aren't covered by existing and much cheaper land-based LTE-coverage from the partnering mobile networks.
- lxgr 3y agoMy concern is really of a more technical nature: 2G-5G are somewhat "chatty" on their signalling channels, as far as I understand. Even when a given network does not support your operator/SIM card, your device will attempt to connect to it at least once (and hopefully cache the resulting rejection permanently and not keep trying in a loop). But in case your device does support the satellite-based service (e.g. as a T-Mobile customer in the US), it would then attach to the satellite network if no terrestrial service is available and send periodic location updates etc. That's normally not a problem, since cell sizes on earth are limited (either by geometry/physics or intentionally by network capacity planning), and by extension also the ratio of signalling chatter per cell. I'm just not sure if unmodified LTE clients can be convinced to be less chatty only from the network side.