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Musk's Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

UNITED STATES, JUL 25 – T-Satellite enables texting and emergency 911 messages beyond traditional networks using 650+ Starlink satellites, available to T-Mobile and other carriers for a fee.

  • T-Mobile officially launched its T-Satellite service, powered by Starlink, on July 23, 2025, making it available to all US customers including Verizon and AT&T users.
  • The launch followed months of beta testing that began in February and included users from multiple carriers, as T-Mobile partnered with SpaceX to offer satellite texting and location sharing.
  • At launch, T-Satellite enables text messaging and location sharing, with support for sending photos and voice messages being introduced gradually; plans also include data access for select optimized apps such as WhatsApp and AccuWeather.
  • The service currently costs $10 per month under a limited-time discount, with a future price increase to $15, and works on over 60 smartphone models with no additional setup required.
  • T-Mobile’s satellite network, comprising over 650 Starlink satellites, represents the largest satellite-to-mobile constellation and aims to reduce dead zones, potentially impacting satellite connectivity competition.
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Elon Musk's satellite communications service Starlink has failed for more than two hours. Worldwide customers reported a far-reaching malfunction. Meanwhile, the malfunction has been fixed, the cause being software problems.[more]]>

·Hamburg, Germany
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The Starlink systems used by Ukrainian military units have been inoperable for two and a half hours during the night of Thursday to Friday, declared a senior Ukrainian commander. The announcement comes after the internet service via satellite...

·Romania
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During the evening last night, all of Starlink’s world connections fell for two and a half hours. Elon Musk has apologized, because it is a serious failure.

·Madrid, Spain
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For hours it was zappenduster: with thousands of satellites, Elon Musk's Starlink system is supposed to provide fast Internet anywhere in the world. A software problem embarrassed Donald Trump's ex-bus friend's flagship project to the bone.

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