To: Spktyr
No, Starlink sats cannot track existing cell phones as they are on a different radio band entirely. Satellite phones are a completely different and at the current time very expensive proposition that few people have. Cell phones do not talk to satellites, they talk to towers on earths surface. What they CAN do is allow for a ground cell tower in a remote location to offer cell service via the satellite system.
36 posted on
06/04/2020 8:42:56 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625
Not as of yet - though that is one option being discussed between SpaceX and potential customers. Point is that Starlink isn’t physically capable of “tracking all the cell phones” as E. Pluribus there seems to think it is.
37 posted on
06/04/2020 8:48:17 AM PDT by
Spktyr
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