Driving down a lonely stretch of freeway. Trekking by verdant backcountry. Ready out a extreme storm.
These are all conditions the place conventional cell service can rapidly falter, or disappear completely. But when T-Cellular and SpaceX get their method, mobile useless zones could lastly go extinct, in the USA anyway.
Final week, T-Cellular CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX founder Elon Musk introduced a partnership that guarantees to supply at the least a point of mobile service “virtually all over the place within the continental U.S., Hawaii, components of Alaska, Puerto Rico and territorial waters.”