Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months agoStarlink was approved by the FCC to run a limited test in North Carolina and Florida in the damage pads of the two hurricanes and it’s doing pretty good as well. With their system, anybody on any carrier can get wireless emergency alerts and currently T-Mobile customers can send and receive text messages.
heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cool! Since I do the occasional mountain bike ride or hike into places with zero cell service, it’s a huge plus for me to have satellite communication capabilities on the phone. Interesting they’re working it the other way too for disaster areas.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Eventually, it won’t just be for disaster areas. It will be for the entire United States and will show up anywhere that you would normally not have a signal.