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I wonder what the user experience was like. Did they have to select "Starlink" instead of "T-Mobile"? If not, was there some kind TMobile-signed-starlink's-key
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I wonder what the user experience was like. Did they have to select "Starlink" instead of "T-Mobile"?
If not, was there some kind TMobile-signed-starlink's-key situation?
It's an interesting interplay between preferring user consent versus wanting things to just start working when they need to.
- diebeforei485 2y agoThis is for where there is no T-mobile coverage, so there is no need to choose satellite over a terrestrial station.
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- wmf 2y agoRoaming is generally automatic with no "consent" involved.
- beeflet 2y agoTrue. This vid was a major eye opener for how insecure the current staus quo is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
- TeMPOraL 2y agoIn the limit, security is opposed to everything that's good and nice, safety included.
- lxgr 2y agoYour phone provider definitely has to have a roaming agreement. Without that, your phone won’t attach to any 3G network and beyond (3G introduced mutual authentication). GSM remains vulnerable to all kinds of bad things since it only authenticates the phone/SIM to the network but not otherwise).