I think it's possible that Apple will buy Globalstar or somehow offer emergency messaging via satellite. It's even possible that Apple will offer some sort of satellite voice service, again possibly for emergency use only.<p>I'm much more skeptical about the idea of Apple trying to compete with normal cell carriers. The trend in wireless is to go to small cells so that a carrier can offer high bandwidth service (like 5G) to customers. A satellite would have an effective cell radius of several hundred km, and would not be able to offer broadband service to everyone in a densely-populated area.
I’ve been wondering for a while when Apple was going to launch its own mobile network. It just seemed like a matter of time, especially considering that Google’s already active in that space. Apple likes to redesign product categories that are broken and frustrating—the Apple Card being one example—and I think most of us hate dealing with our mobile providers. I know I do; the Verizon site is horrible. I doubt Apple likes having someone else’s shoddy UX coloring the process of buying and managing their mobile devices, and given how creepy the current wireless carriers are, I could see Apple pitching their own network as the privacy-friendly alternative.<p>It’s Apple, so who knows what they’ll do, but having their own mobile service makes a lot of sense to me.
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