First demo of T-Mobile’s Direct to Cell service.
The video call works, barely, and that’s before fighting other LTE-compatible phones for access to the T-Mo service first announced in 2022.
But when the choice is no coverage versus this, well, I’d call that a win. And it’ll only be available for texting this year in the US, with data coming in 2025 as SpaceX launches more D2C Starlink satellites.