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Iridium is launching 5G standards-based direct-to-device capabilities this year: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-ntn-direct https://www.iridium.com/ser
by lxgr 4mo ago
Iridium is launching 5G standards-based direct-to-device capabilities this year: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-ntn-direct https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-ntn-direct
- NetMageSCW 4mo agoOnly for companies that choose to make or support phones with Iridium connectivity included, as opposed to AST and Starlink targeting existing phones.
- lxgr 4mo agoKind 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.