T-Mobile brings free 911 emergency texting to AT&T and Verizon customers

T-Mobile is opening up entree to its Starlink-powered exigency texting service. The bearer announced connected Wednesday that anyone with a compatible telephone — adjacent AT&T and Verizon customers — tin motion up to substance 911 implicit outer for free.

In July, T-Mobile launched its “T-Satellite” service to customers crossed the US for $10 per month, allowing some T-Mobile and non-T-Mobile customers to nonstop messages, stock their location, and access prime apps implicit satellite. This work besides includes texts to 911, but now, that’s disposable for free.  

You tin motion up for exigency outer texting if you person a telephone compatible with T-Satellite, though determination are immoderate beauteous notable exceptions. It doesn’t enactment phones with exigency outer texting built in, including the iPhone 14 and later, arsenic good arsenic the Pixel 9 and up (excluding the 9A). That means you tin lone usage T-Mobile’s 911 texting if you person an iPhone 13, Pixel 9A, a Samsung Galaxy S21 and up, oregon a newer Motorola phone.

If you’re a non-T-Mobile customer, you’ll besides request to person an unlocked telephone with an eSIM.

T-Mobile customers tin motion up for the exigency outer texting work by signing into their T-Mobile relationship online and choosing the enactment nether the “Manage Data & Add-ons” section. Everyone other tin enroll by signing up through T-Mobile’s website. Once you’re signed up, T-Mobile notes that your telephone volition automatically link to T-Mobile’s exigency texting web successful areas without cellular coverage.