Jeff Donald wrote:
Your iPhone has a radio/modem that’s a chip inside your iPhone. It receives specific channels or wavelengths. This is just like the FM radio in your car.
The radio in an iPhone is completely different than the FM radio in your car. For one thing, the iPhone can transmit. So there's that. For another, you can (in theory at least) roll up your windows and listen to the radio in private. No one will ever know what station you are listening to.
The radio connections made by your iPhone are completely different. Every packet of data is tracked from point A to point B, both receiving and transmitting. Your location is tracked too. Someone always knows what data you are sending and what data you are receiving. So the key question here is "who knows"?
T-Mobile has the exclusive rights to the 1900 MHz frequencies. The FCC HAS granted Space X (Starlink) to use that band for direct to cellular service.
What's this obsession with T-Mobile all about anyway? Has no one ever heard of cellular roaming? Unless someone configures their phone in a very specific way, they really have no choice about which cellular data providers their phone is going to communicate with. It's all based on peering agreements, your data plan, distance from towers, over-subscriptions, etc.
Granted, I doubt many people are going to be roaming on T-Mobile. That was always my service of choice when I lived in the US. And boy was it bad. I just didn't need to make a lot of phone calls so I didn't want to pay AT&T prices. But it was annoying to be constantly surrounded by annoying people talking loudly on their cell phones when I could never make a call on my T-Mobile. 😄
If you don’t want Starlink, don’t subscribe to T-Mobile.
What if someone is already 3 months into a 4 year contract? If they're locked into T-Mobile, but want a new phone, and don't want any Starlink connection, then they might need to go Android shopping.