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• They include Rogers in Canada, KDDI in Japan, Optus in Australia, One NZ in New Zealand, Salt in Switzerland and Entel in Chile and Peru, according to the company.Those utilizing it "have access to reciprocal global access in all partner nations," SpaceX said on its website..
• "Note, this only supports ~7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular networks..
• "T-MOBILE SLASHING 5,000 JOBS TO BOOST EFFICIENCYThe wireless provider first partnered with SpaceX for direct to cell in August 2023..
• (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images)SpaceX said six other companies have plans to use the technology..
• "This [technology] will allow for mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth," Musk wrote on his social media platform X..
• To start, customers will have only text messaging coverage with it, the company said.SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., April 19, 2022..