How T-Mobile and SpaceX are teaming up to give you coverage from space

The age of the cellular dead zone may be ending.

August 30, 2022More than 3 years ago

7 min

T-Mobile is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer wireless phone service in remote parts of the U.S. where coverage is spotty. Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg)

ByChris Velazco

Driving down a lonely stretch of highway. Trekking through verdant backcountry. Waiting out a severe storm.

These are all situations where traditional cell service can quickly falter, or disappear entirely. But if T-Mobile and SpaceX get their way, cellular dead zones may finally go extinct, in the United States anyway.

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