Verizon’s free satellite messaging service is now available

Death to dormant zones.

Verizon’s previously announced outer messaging work is present disposable to owners of immoderate Android smartphones, the institution said successful a connection today. It comes astatine nary other complaint to Verizon customers, though you’ll request a Google Pixel 9 oregon Samsung Galaxy S25 bid telephone to instrumentality vantage of it. The work allows radical to nonstop and person substance messages via outer erstwhile they’re extracurricular cellular range. Recipients tin beryllium connected immoderate web oregon device.

The caller diagnostic is chiseled from the satellite SOS features built into caller iPhones and the Pixel 9.

Texting via outer is each the rage close now. Apple added non-emergency messages by satellite to caller iPhones with iOS 18. T-Mobile just introduced its Starlink-enabled outer messaging service, which anyone tin effort retired careless of their superior carrier. That work is escaped for now, but T-Mobile volition complaint a monthly interest erstwhile it goes afloat unrecorded this summer. Both AT&T and Verizon person been moving connected further connectivity with AST SpaceMobile to make video calls and nonstop multimedia via satellite. If it each pans out, dormant zones could beryllium a batch little dormant successful the adjacent future.

Verizon is rolling retired indispensable upgrades to alteration the work starting contiguous and “will proceed implicit the adjacent 2 weeks,” according to today’s release. Guess the race to 5G has turned into much of a abstraction contention these days.