Satellite-to-Phone Messaging: Coverage Limits and Latency Tests
Satellite-to-phone messaging has moved rapidly from marketing promise to deployed feature. What began as emergency-only connectivity is evolving into a broader direct-to-cell ecosystem, enabling standard smartphones to communicate with satellites without specialized hardware. Yet the real-world performance profile remains widely misunderstood. Coverage is not global in practice, latency is highly variable, and throughput constraints impose … Read more