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Starlink just changed the global connectivity rules
has revamped its website, with , called , expanding its role as a telecommunications provider and positioning itself as a potential partner with other carriers as a standard roaming partner by increasing the coverage of the cellphone networks of its space-based telecom towers.
The company’s idea is to start with a text messaging service in 2024, and then move on to complete its offering with the inclusion of voice, data and IoT in 2025, all without the need to carry out any modifications to handsets or devices. It will be an operator with global coverage using low-level satellites instead of conventional telephone antennas anchored on the ground, after it has secured the licenses.
The move provides an insight into the role of Starlink’s network in the future, which is becoming increasingly oversized after upgrading the first version of its satellites to , called , still designed to fit on SpaceX’s rockets, and with the next larger version, V2, planned for launch as soon as they begin to use the much larger rockets systematically.
Starlink’s satellite launches are used by SpaceX as a way of filling the capacity of its rockets and increasethe…
