FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones 43
The FCC said it has approved a license for T-Mobile and SpaceX's Starlink to provide supplemental coverage to cover internet dead zones. Reuters reports: The license marks the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator collaborating with a wireless carrier to provide supplemental telecommunications coverage from space on some flexible-use spectrum bands allocated to terrestrial service. The partnership aims to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas and eliminate "dead zones."
T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a partnership in 2022 and in January the first set of satellites supporting the partnership was launched into low-Earth orbit with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. "The FCC is actively promoting competition in the space economy by supporting more partnerships between terrestrial mobile carriers and satellite operators to deliver on a single network future that will put an end to mobile dead zones," said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel.
T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a partnership in 2022 and in January the first set of satellites supporting the partnership was launched into low-Earth orbit with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. "The FCC is actively promoting competition in the space economy by supporting more partnerships between terrestrial mobile carriers and satellite operators to deliver on a single network future that will put an end to mobile dead zones," said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel.
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hows it feel that the majority of American's don't believe the lies, hatred, and Nazi of the left?
Your desperate attempt to project and blame others for the disgusting things you do may make you and your sycophants giggle like little boys laughing because they said "ass", but in truth, the destitution of your hate, bigotry, ignorance, and fascism are apparent to anyone with an IQ above 45.
When Trump puts in he new sales taxes, enjoy paying 37.5% more for just about everything. And I'm going to love hearing you cry when you lose your Obama Care. But I'm sure you'll blame the left for that right wing fail
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This will only count if the convicted felon changes his mind, if he's beaten to it by his own maggots and their reps then we'll just note down he didn't have the political capital.
Kinda like his pedophile AG lost the nomination and his best ruzzke asset is about to.
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Kinda like his pedophile AG
Get your chronophilia terminology right.
The youngest of Gaetz's sex trafficking victims was 16.
That makes him an ephebophile [wikipedia.org].
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Well, I hope he finds your 16 year old daughter and has his way with her. You can let me know how you feel afterwards.
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From your post, it's not hard at all to see which side is doing the hating.
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Grow the hell up already.
Thus saysh the person that has been told an average of 21 lies the first time trump had 1,461 days in the Oval orifice and watches a network that has been fined almost a billion dollars for lying and is going to be hit with another 4 billion dollars in 2025, and up to 36 billion by 2028.
Sure, I'll come apologize if it turns out Trump never ever lies again. Whoops. Too late, he just lied again!
Grow up. Your gaslighting, projection, hate, immaturity, childish tribalism and lies are just boring, predictable, and right out of Putin's playbook. Straighten up or I'll sneak into your bathroom and leave you some tampons to make you all upset again. And it won't be a religious faith that replaces you, it will be a really bad LLM.
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He has a plan, we all know what it's called, and he's already named more than a half-dozen cabinet picks who are affiliated with it either directly or with only one degree of separation. But the same people you're talking to are in denial about his affiliation with it, and also with what its ramifications are, so it's a waste of time talking to them about it.
They have fucked around and the only way for them to learn is to experience the find out phase.
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I thought it was more properly called "Mierda Lago".
Dead zone (Score:2, Insightful)
I imagine ... (Score:2)
FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones
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How did Slashdot become just a never ending episode of Lefties Losing it ?
As I recall, back in 2020 quite a few Righties were losing it.
At least the lefties aren't ransacking the capitol.
How quickly cuckservatives forget (Score:4, Insightful)
How did Slashdot become just a never ending episode of Lefties Losing it ?
Remember when Obama won and you guys all started wearing "not my president" shirts and shit? Your mantra was "fuck your feelings" and your motto was "cope and seethe"? You went from "better dead than red" to "better Russian than Democrat" overnight, because you were instructed to do so.
You seem to be upset that we aren't happy with your rapist felon's victory.
Fuck your feelings.
Cope and seethe.
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"the problem isn't your comment because obviously people will always feed the trolls"
It would help if you were actually the old school nerd you put yourself forwards as, because then you would know what "troll" means. It's not just anyone you disagree with, it means specifically people who will say things they don't believe in order to piss other people off.
If you think I'm not sincere, that says everything about you and nothing about me.
If you call people troll for saying things they believe in that you do
Re: It's OFF TOPIC, mods. ALL OF IT. (Score:2)
I'm not feeding trolls, they are doing me a favor. The trolls are feeding ME.
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"If the two parties are so dramatically opposed why do US policies stay the same no matter who is president?" - Caitlin Johnstone
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Elections are over, Trump has had a resounding win, what's the use of pushing political comments everywhere
The election is over. The politics are not. You should hope they never will be.
First Non-Political Post (Score:4, Informative)
If you all don't mind, I'd like to interject an observation that doesn't have to do with partisan politics.
We traveled down the Pacific Coast Highway a couple of years ago, and drove from Seattle to Louisiana the year before that and Seattle to Michigan the year after. Any cellular company claiming "95% coverage across the United States" is full of crap. There are dead zones 50 miles from Portland along a major highway, there were places throughout our travels when we were without even one bar for an hour or more. Hell, there's a big dead zone 15 minutes from the Microsoft campus, half an hour from T-Mobile's headquarters, that tens of thousands of commuters drive through ever day.
Those claims are usually population coverage (Score:3)
They claim they cover 95% of the population's homes or workplaces, not 95% of the country's geographical area. They focus on the densest areas. Getting from 95% to 98% requires a huge increase in coverage area which no-one wants to do.
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Except, it seems, TMobile and SpaceX?
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Interestingly we can see the T-Mobile headquarters from our window, but only get 3 bars here in spite of the antennas that we can see on the building.
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Interestingly we can see the T-Mobile headquarters from our window, but only get 3 bars here in spite of the antennas that we can see on the building.
Does your window have a screen on it? Maybe your house is a Faraday Cage.
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The screens are fabric, but that's immaterial since standing in the yard it's the same.
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Maybe the antennas are for something other than cell service. Or maybe your house aligns at a node of the antenna -- if that is even a thing. I'm not an antenna engineer but AFAIK the radiation patterns of mobile-service antennas can be configured in real time to your location. Perhaps not ideally in your direction for some reason?
I assume you can get 5 bars somewhere?
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Same in airplanes!