{"id":50698,"date":"2024-10-09T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=50698"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:10:48","slug":"spacex-makes-starlink-service-available-for-t-mobile-users-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/10\/09\/spacex-makes-starlink-service-available-for-t-mobile-users-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX makes Starlink service available for T-Mobile users in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Space company says service works \u2018best outdoors\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"19162a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/images-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50699 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #19162a; width:443px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">T-Mobile customers affected by Hurricane Milton will be able to send SMS texts over Starlink satellites, according to&nbsp;The Verge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have now enabled basic texting (SMS) for those on T-Mobile phones in hurricane affected areas,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1843797123420303789\">SpaceX says<\/a>. \u201cText messages have already been sent and received. You can text loved ones, text 911 and continue to receive emergency alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Verge, if your phone connects to a Starlink satellite instead of a usual antenna, you will see one or two bars of service, and the network name will be \u201cT-Mobile SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If messages do no initially send, try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceX says the service works \u201cbest outdoors\u201d and \u201coccasionally works indoors near a window.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space company says service works \u2018best outdoors\u2019 T-Mobile customers affected by Hurricane Milton will be able to send SMS texts over Starlink satellites, according to&nbsp;The Verge. \u201cWe have now enabled&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":50699,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/images-5.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[9994],"class_list":["post-50698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spacex-makes-starlink-service-available-for-t-mobile-users-in-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50700,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698\/revisions\/50700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}