![]() Iridium would work fine for this if you limit it to iMessage/SMS and anything else low-bandwidth (I would imagine they add 911/SOS support too). I agree it's unlikely, but, not for technical reasons. Apple was able to keep the iPhone under wraps, but it's impossible to do that with satellite launches and FCC filings as we've learned with SpaceX. I don't claim to be an expert in any of this, adding this capability an iPhone would be as disruptive as the iPhone itself was. Any incumbent satellite operators (such as Thuraya, mentioned in another comment) are in Geostationary orbit, not LEO. Unless Apple has been secretly launching their own fleet of satellites, where are they getting the bandwidth? I doubt it's Starlink. The same antenna issue applies.Ģ) Bandwidth. They're not going to magically stuff that into an iPhone.ĮDIT: Some replies have said "Hey, Iridium is LEO". Starlink is in a lower than usual orbit, and look at the immense effort/expense to make base station antennae that can reliably communicate with the satellites. ![]() I'm going to call it exactly as I see it: This is fake.ġ) LEO.
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