Verizon goes to launch satellite tv for pc messaging this fall

Verizon is the subsequent huge telephone firm to launch a satellite tv for pc messaging service — and it’s coming quickly. Beginning this fall, the service will let “sure smartphones” entry emergency messaging and site sharing through satellite tv for pc in a partnership with Skylo — which can be powering Google’s not too long ago introduced Satellite tv for pc SOS characteristic.

Someday subsequent 12 months, Verizon says clients can even be capable of ship textual content messages through satellite tv for pc.

Verizon says the service, which it’s launching in partnership with Skylo, gained’t value further. “There aren’t any extra prices deliberate for this service,” in keeping with Verizon spokesperson Karen Schulz. “Succesful gadgets can make the most of this no matter worth plan.” Schulz confirmed assist for the Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, Pixel 9 Professional Fold.

Earlier this 12 months, Verizon invested $100 million into AST SpaceMobile, one other satellite tv for pc connectivity firm, and regardless of this Skylo information, Verizon remains to be planning to accomplice with AST SpaceMobile. “We’re very excited not solely to work with AST, however to be a long-term investor within the success of their satellite tv for pc companies,” Schulz says. “Till their satellite tv for pc array is launched and practical, we needed to ensure all of our clients with succesful gadgets have the identical primary satellite tv for pc messaging connectivity.”