Welcome to the Tech Main Ride Home for Friday August 26, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today

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T-Mobile and SpaceX have partnered to let customers in areas lacking.

T-Mobile Service use Starlink for things like MMS, SMS, and Select messaging apps in some markets in 2023.

Basically, they're eliminating dead zones for certain things, quoting the verge.

T-Mobile says it's getting rid of mobile dead zones thanks to a new partnership with SpaceX's

Starlink satellite internet at an event hosted by T-Mobile CEO Mike Severt and Elon Musk.

With their coverage above and beyond setup,

mobile phones could connect to satellites

and use a slice of a connection,

providing around 2 to 4 megabits per second

connection total across a given coverage area.

That connection should be enough to let you text, send MMS messages, and even use

select messaging apps whenever you have a clear view of the sky, even if there's no traditional service available.

According to a press release from T-Mobile, the Satellite to Cellular Service will be available everywhere

in the continental U.S. Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico, and territorial waters.

The service is scheduled to launch in beta by the end of next year in select areas and

Severt says he hopes it will someday include data. According to Musk, second generation Starlink satellites launching next year

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