Mint uses T-Mobile towers and T-Mobile signed on with Starlink for global direct to cell from starlink sats. This means no more dead spots anywhere on the surface of the planet. T-Mobile goes live later this year it won’t even show up as starlink the satellites themselves are T-Mobile towers in the sky. It will just work anywhere, everywhere.
T-Mobile has not said it will extend this access to its virtual partners but it’s hard to see how they can’t if they are allowing starlink to be full T-Mobile network access points the phones won’t know the difference.
Starlink already has sent text, made VOLTE calls and yesterday did a full two-way video X call over the satellites with unmodified 5G phones no other company on earth has the network in the sky to do this.
AST has one test bird up and Lynk has a couple 2/3G birds up. Starlink is launching 23 birds every other day it only took iridium 63 to cover the planet at slightly higher altitude.
For the starlink access alone T-Mobile wins especially for people like myself who are global travelers on the regular. T-Mobile magenta max or GoogleFi are by far the best global phone plans FYI. Both have global data and calling in 100+ countries basically most of the civilized world. Adding in starlink is the cherry on top. GoogleFi uses T-Mobile towers as well as others best roaming plan on the planet.
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