At launch -- projected for early 2025 -- Starlink will support only texting, but T-Mobile shares that the service eventually will be expanding to data and voice. The free beta will provide users with high-speed internet connectivity in challenging-to-access places such as rural locations, concerts, and even airplanes.

Testing will be free for post-paid customers.

T-Mobile and Starlink are working together to bring non-emergency satellite messaging to phones. Here's how to join the beta!

T-Mobile and Starlink have this idea that there could be a world where there are no dead zones. By connecting the two, we could see a service where your T-Mobile data plan includes access to Starlink’s satellite internet service and your phone could access a

T-Mobile announces that its customers can start registering today (Dec 18) for its satellite service with Starlink. The beta is "open and free" for its postpaid voice customers with a "compatible device.

T-Mobile and Starlink's satellite messaging service won't be available to everyone registering for the beta program.