Direct to Cell
In field trial
Messaging and voice to unmodified handsets outside terrestrial coverage. The phone in a pocket keeps working past the last tower — no dish, no app, no second device. Delivered against Lux numbers, so a device keeps its identity when it leaves the ground network.
What you get
- Standard LTE handsets, unmodified — no client software
- Messaging in service; voice in field trial
- The subscriber keeps one number across terrestrial and orbital coverage
- Session hand-off is the network’s problem, not the application’s