Skylo Partners With Syniverse to Implement SMS Over Satellite for Verizon
Collaboration offers satellite connectivity beyond emergency services, enabling native SMS messaging over satellite for Verizon customers.
D2D "will drive everything that's happening," said Tarun Gupta, Skylo CPO and co-founder.
There's a clear reason why satellites are such a hot topic right now: It's the new phone-to-satellite messaging services that are hitting the market from the likes of Apple, Huawei and Bullitt. Such services – dubbed "direct to device" (D2D) services by those in the satellite industry – promise to allow regular smartphones to connect to satellites hundreds of miles up in the sky.
That represents a major new development considering satellite connections were previously reserved exclusively for dedicated satellite phones, often bulky and expensive ones.
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