SpaceX has officially rebranded its "Direct to Cell" phone-to-satellite service as "Starlink Mobile".

Starlink Mobile currently serves ~ 16M users. Company plans to build Gen 2 of its satellite constellation beginning in mid-2027 and suggests it will scale out the constellation over time, potentially to 15,000 satellites.

Empahsis = Starlink Mobile is not a replacement for existing cell services, it is "complementary to terrestrial networks".

We will see how long that positioning lasts!

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