Verizon’s beforehand introduced satellite tv for pc messaging service is now obtainable to homeowners of some Android smartphones, the corporate said in a statement today. It comes at no additional cost to Verizon prospects, although you’ll want a Google Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy S25 sequence telephone to benefit from it. The service permits folks to ship and obtain textual content messages by way of satellite tv for pc once they’re exterior mobile vary. Recipients may be on any community or gadget.
Texting by way of satellite tv for pc is all the trend proper now. Apple added non-emergency messages by satellite to latest iPhones with iOS 18. T-Cellular simply launched its Starlink-enabled satellite tv for pc messaging service, which anybody can check out no matter their major service. That service is free for now, however T-Cellular will cost a month-to-month charge when it goes totally stay this summer season. Each AT&T and Verizon have been engaged on extra connectivity with AST SpaceMobile to make video calls and ship multimedia by way of satellite tv for pc. If all of it pans out, useless zones might be so much much less useless within the close to future.
Verizon is rolling out needed upgrades to allow the service beginning at the moment and “will proceed over the following two weeks,” in accordance with at the moment’s launch. Guess the race to 5G has became extra of an area race today.