Comment by Animats

1 year ago

Starlink is rolling out "direct to cell" connections, where the satellites connect directly to GSM cell phones. Is any ground station involved in a cell to cell call?

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panick21_  1 year ago

You could imagine a situation where they can do that.

But practically what happens is the phone connects to a sat, the sat connects to a local ground station, then across conventional fiber to another ground station, up to a sat and then down to the other phones.

The are likely doing that because regulation and so on. But the do what you suggest.