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    digitpatroxFebruary 1, 2025
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    T-Mobile Is Expanding Its Starlink Beta to iPhones and Pixels

    If you have T-Mobile, and either an iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, or Google Pixel device, you now have access to Starlink—potentially. Here’s the scoop: Back in December, T-Mobile announced a partnership between itself and SpaceX to bring Starlink service to customers. Then, earlier this month, the company started accepting users into the beta, but only those with specific, recent Samsung devices.…

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    digitpatroxJanuary 30, 2025
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    T-Mobile Is Expanding Its Starlink Beta to iPhones

    If you have T-Mobile, and either an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy device, you now have access to Starlink—potentially. Here’s the scoop: Back in December, T-Mobile announced a partnership between itself and SpaceX to bring Starlink service to customers. Then, earlier this month, the company started accepting users into the beta, but only those with specific, recent Samsung devices. However,…

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    digitpatroxJanuary 29, 2025
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    iPhones on T-Mobile can access Starlink satellite communications – Computerworld

    Apple invested $1.1 billion in GlobalStar in November 2024, taking a 20% stake in the company in exchange for 85% of the satellite carrier’s network capacity. All this activity, and the détente with Starlink, suggest the race toward satellite-based iPhone communications is intensifying. It’s only a matter of time until global network services become a reality. Which way to go If you…

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    digitpatroxJanuary 25, 2025
    75

    Subaru Starlink flaw let hackers hijack cars in US and Canada

    Security researchers have discovered an arbitrary account takeover flaw in Subaru’s Starlink service that could let attackers track, control, and hijack vehicles in the United States, Canada, and Japan using just a license plate. Bug bounty hunter Sam Curry revealed on Thursday that the vulnerability was discovered on November 20, 2024, with the help of researcher Shubham Shah. They found that the security…

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    digitpatroxDecember 17, 2024
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    Europe’s Starlink competitor is go

    The EU has signed a deal for its IRIS² constellation of 290 communication satellites that will operate in both medium and low Earth orbit. The Starlink rival will provide secure connectivity to governmental users as well as private companies and European citizens, and bring high-speed internet to dead-zones. The public-private deal valued at €10.6 billion (about $11 billion), according to The Financial Times, is…

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    digitpatroxOctober 31, 2024
    138

    How to use a VPN with Starlink: The best VPNs for Starlink

    Want to protect your privacy and access regional content via your Starlink internet? In this guide, we explain how to use a VPN with Starlink. We will teach you how a VPN for Starlink improves your privacy. Plus, how to use a VPN to bypass region blocks. To make your life easier, we’ve also included a list of the best…

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    digitpatroxOctober 9, 2024
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    Starlink and T-Mobile’s text-by-satellite service is available in Florida

    T-Mobile customers in areas affected by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton will now be able to send SMS texts over Starlink satellites, according to SpaceX. “We have now enabled basic texting (SMS) for those on T-Mobile phones in hurricane affected areas,” SpaceX says. “Text messages have already been sent and received. You can text loved ones, text 911 and continue…

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    digitpatroxSeptember 13, 2024
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    United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes

    United Airlines’ in-flight Wi-Fi is getting a big upgrade on of its jets, thanks to SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. After teasing “something big” for the skies, United says that it will start testing Starlink’s fast Wi-Fi service in early 2025, with the first passenger flights expected later next year. United is installing Starlink Wi-Fi into all its aircraft, more than 1,000…

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    digitpatroxSeptember 3, 2024
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    Brazilian Supreme Court panel upholds X ban, while Starlink refuses to comply

    A panel of five Brazilian Supreme Court justices voted Monday to uphold a decision (PDF) requiring the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X, the service formerly known as Twitter. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the ban on Friday in response to X owner Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with court orders to block certain accounts and to…

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