Rogers Launches Satellite-to-Mobile Service Across Canada

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NitpickLawyer · 15h ago

> The new Rogers Satellite service, developed through partnerships with SpaceX and Lynk Global, allows customers to send text messages and access text-to-911 services using their existing smartphones in areas without traditional cellular coverage.

Huge for aiding search and rescue. There was also some talk about low-res GPS using starlinks, wonder if they could do something similar even without dedicated receivers, like cell providers can do (via trilateration).

whycome · 13h ago

Only a smartphone would have this capability so presumably they also have onboard gps. It would be trivial to make something that automatically sends the GPS coords via text. This should be a built-in function for phones.

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Rogers Launches Satellite-to-Mobile Service Across Canada

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