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Starlink activates emergency phone connectivity for Hurricane Milton (spacenews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spacex

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the US, mobile devices can't make emergency calls using any network? I never noticed, but it's law for everywhere else I know. If there's any network in range, regardless of who owns it or if it's the driven around pop-up towers, anything with an IMEI can use whatever's around for emergency comms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

That's correct, worldwide as far as I know. But doesn't help if there's no network available at all. Usually, multiple carriers will use the same tower, so if that falls over, you're outta luck.