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Watch this: The New iPhone Air Changes the Game for Preorders\n <\/p>\n
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When Apple introduced the satellite feature in 2022, it said the service would be free for two years. In 2024, when the original free window was about to expire, Apple shifted the date to 2025. Now, three years on, the company is pushing that timeline out an additional year for owners of iPhone 14<\/a> and iPhone 15<\/a> models.<\/p>\n In the\u00a0press release for the newly released iPhone 17<\/a>, Apple states that the “free trial will be extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who have activated their device in a country that supports Apple’s satellite features prior to 12 a.m. PT on Sept. 9, 2025.” In other words, if you buy an older iPhone 14 or 15 now and plan to turn it on after that date, you won’t get this extended satellite service.\u00a0<\/p>\n Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET<\/a> as a preferred Google source.<\/p>\n Emergency satellite features are becoming more of a competitive advantage for companies. One of the new key features of the just-announced\u00a0Apple Watch Series 11<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>\u00a0is the ability to communicate via satellite, even when a paired iPhone is not nearby or has run out of battery. People who purchase a new iPhone or either Apple smartwatch model this year will get free Emergency SOS satellite service for two years.<\/p>\n I drove 120 miles to find an area not covered by cellular networks.<\/p>\n Jeff Carlson\/CNET<\/p>\n T-Mobile recently launched its\u00a0T-Satellite<\/a>\u00a0service, which runs on the SpaceX Starlink satellite network. Emergency calling is free, but connecting via text or\u00a0apps<\/a>\u00a0is a paid service, costing $10 a month. T-Mobile customers can add it to an existing plan (it’s rolled into the price of the Experience Beyond of Go5G Next plans). Customers of other cellular providers can add T-Satellite as an independent service using a secondary eSIM in their phones. <\/p>\n Apple gets its satellite service from Globalstar, in which it recently\u00a0invested $1.5 billion<\/a>\u00a0to take advantage of Globalstar’s satellite network. When\u00a0I tested T-Satellite<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year on my iPhone 16 Pro, I also used Apple’s service, which serves as a fallback if another satellite service is active. <\/p>\n Watch this: iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: All the New Features You Need to Know\n <\/p>\n 04:31 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off the grid doesn’t mean out of luck. Apple’s satellite service, which connects directly to an overhead satellite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-16036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/p>\n
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