T-Mobile Conducts the First Ever Wireless Emergency Alert Via Satellite
11 Setembro 2024 - 12:22PM
Business Wire
T-Mobile Starlink satellite-to-smartphone
technology to bring critical emergency alerts to 500,000+ square
miles of land currently unreachable with earth-based cell
towers
Emergency alerts will work for everyone – even
Verizon, AT&T and other wireless provider customers will
receive critical emergency alerts
Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires - the type of catastrophic events
that often trigger a wireless emergency alert - don't care about
wireless coverage zones. Soon it won't matter.
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T-Mobile Starlink satellite-to-smartphone
technology to bring critical emergency alerts to 500,000+ square
miles of land currently unreachable with earth-based cell towers.
Emergency alerts will work for everyone – even Verizon, AT&T
and other wireless provider customers will receive critical
emergency alerts. (Photo: Business Wire)
Today, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced that it successfully
sent and received - for the first time ever in the U.S. - a
wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite. The breakthrough
opens up the 500,000 square miles of lightly populated, mountainous
and/or uninhabitable land across the country to critical,
life-saving emergency alerts.
"This is one of those days, as the CEO of a wireless company,
that makes me pause for a moment and reflect on how technology
advancements and the work we’re doing is truly impacting life and
death situations," said Mike Sievert.
At 5:13 PM PT on Thursday, September 5th, T-Mobile initiated a
test alert for a hypothetical evacuation notice. The alert was sent
217 miles into space where it was received by one of the more than
175 Starlink direct-to-smartphone satellites currently in low-earth
orbit that effectively function as cell towers in space. The alert
was then broadcast to a geographic area impacted by the
hypothetical evacuation notice and received by a T-Mobile
smartphone.
In total, it took emergency operators just seconds to queue up
an emergency message and deliver that message via Starlink
satellites to users on the ground.
The life-saving benefits of satellite-enabled WEAs are immense.
Take the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California as an example. The
fire, which ultimately burned more than 150,000 acres, forced the
evacuation of 52,000 people, destroyed 19,000 structures including
most of the city of Paradise and, most devastatingly, took 86
lives, erupted in the rural Sierra Nevada mountains.
Those who lived, worked or played off the cellular network grid
- relatively common in lightly populated areas with significant
elevation changes - had no access to emergency alerts due to lack
of wireless service coverage. The fire also took out a reported 17
cell towers on the first day of the fire and 66 total during the
first two weeks of the blaze making communications - with first
responders or loved ones - nearly impossible for many.
T-Mobile and Starlink, with more than 175 direct-to-smartphone
satellites currently in low-earth orbit, are currently testing
satellite-to-smartphone service. Additional SpaceX launches are
scheduled over the coming months to add more satellites to the
current constellation, further blanketing the country with wireless
coverage. As that happens, T-Mobile intends to beta test the
service before launching it commercially.
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to date with the latest company news.
About T-Mobile
T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged
Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative
nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for
all. T-Mobile’s customers benefit from its unmatched combination of
value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best
possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption
that creates competition and innovation in wireless and beyond.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its
subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by
T-Mobile, and Mint Mobile. For more information please visit:
https://www.t-mobile.com.
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