Verizon has partnered with Skylo to offer its customers satellite-based messaging and location-sharing services, starting this fall. The carrier also announced that starting next year, users will be ...

Satellite connectivity is starting to show up on more smartphones, and now Verizon is stepping into the ring with its own satellite messaging for smartphones that uses the same tech as Google’s latest ...

Texting via satellite comes to customers with recent Pixel and Galaxy phones starting today. Texting via satellite comes to customers with recent Pixel and Galaxy phones starting today. is a senior ...

Skylo's virtual radio access network enables smartphones and other mass market devices to get connectivity outside cell tower coverage. Credit: Skylo TAMPA, Fla. — Verizon is launching ...

Verizon and AST SpaceMobile have entered into a $100 million partnership. The partnership will allow Verizon customers to access satellite connectivity when they need it. The goal is to provide ...

Among Android phones connecting to Starlink, a third are on AT&T. Only 2.2% are on Verizon, likely because they already have ...

2025 is shaping up to be the year of satellite-to-phone emergency alerts, text messages, and, eventually, video calls. Today, Verizon announced a big expansion of its satellite texting capabilities, ...

Disclosure text explained that Verizon's satellite service was only available on select phones, but an advertising board finds that the text was too small for customers to read. Following a complaint ...

In an interview with Phone Scoop, Brian Mecum, Verizon VP of Device Technology said "satellite is a very interesting space to us", when asked if Verizon planned an answer to T-Mobile's partnership ...

iPhone users have long been able to send emergency messages over satellite. However, Android users have been unlucky, as a only few new devices like the Pixel 9 series previously supported this ...

A while back, Verizon announced emergency satellite texting functionality for users with the Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series devices. Now a variant of that service is available for those ...