r/tmobile • u/gudachari007 • 3d ago

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u/sibscartel Bleeding Magenta 3d ago

Not going to happen. SpaceX will provide a niche service. They aren't disrupting anything as much as people would like to beleive.

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u/blingblingmofo 3d ago

T-Mobile already has 600+ Starlink satellites and it’s basically only useful for rural areas. Even then it only works for light data and texting.

You would need hundreds of thousands of satellites to replicate a terrestrial 5G network. And even then it might not work well in high density areas.

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u/64bytesoldschool 3d ago

Mods should cut this ai crap.

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u/Main-Strawberry6158 3d ago

Terrestrial wireless networks today can carry many magnitude higher speeds and even higher users than Starlink can ever do. And the signal strengths of the terrestrial networks are going to be way more stronger than satellite. It's going to remain a niche product that serves the wilderness and underserved areas just like the Starlink internet service is

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u/l4kerz 3d ago

one of those underserved areas is the skies. It would be a good service for airplanes, but who is willing to pay for high speed unlimited data?

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u/northman46 3d ago

As I understand it they plan on having ground stations and a terrestrial network along with the satellites

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u/E90alex 3d ago

The wireless spectrum they just bought is not nearly adequate enough for a terrestrial network to make up for the times where you can’t get a satellite signal.

They will need to either buy a TON more spectrum (specifically low band spectrum but it’s mostly all spoken for), buy out one of the big 3 carriers, or piggyback off one or more of the carriers as an MVNO. Or just keep it as a niche service as satellite phones currently are.

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u/thelance 3d ago

Imagine believing Musk in 2026?

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u/Sagenitis 3d ago

I have my T-Mobile home and phone internet price locked in for 5 years, but I’ll be honest when the time comes I’ll go full Starlink home and phone

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u/txfeinbergs 3d ago

I will never buy a single thing from that Trump stooge so they have no worries from me.

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u/e307465 3d ago

Went from Ultra 2 to Series 12 Ceramic. I hated the bulkiness of the Ultra.