Last Updated: November 16, 2023, 07:00 IST
Apple has partnered with Globalstar for the iPhone satellite tv for pc tech
Apple launched its SOS satellite tv for pc service with the iPhone 14 mannequin final 12 months and now even the iPhone 15 customers get it.
iPhone 14 customers obtained a brand new service totally free from Apple final 12 months when it was launched however the firm determined to increase the free providing for another 12 months. As you would possibly recall, the corporate stated that iPhone 14 consumers will get 2 years of its Emergency SOS service which helps folks contact the providers the place they don’t have any community.
It is fascinating that Apple has determined to push the satellite tv for pc-primarily based communication service for another 12 months, which successfully makes it a 3-12 months service that iPhone 14 consumers are getting totally free. And it goes with out saying that iPhone 15 fashions additionally get the characteristic and the prolonged assist.
Having stated that, Apple has put some situations for extending the free service. The firm says you possibly can solely avail the free extension of the SOS service for another 12 months in case you have activated the iPhone 14 in a rustic the place the service is definitely accessible and you probably did this earlier than 12 am PT on November 15, 2023.
The international locations the place the SOS satellite tv for pc tech is obtainable from Apple are the US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Spain amongst others. Apple claims that the SOS service has already helped many iPhone customers get rescued because the satellite tv for pc communication was in a position to present emergency providers to the affected folks. Those who’ve been helped by the service have typically been caught in a pure trigger or lose entry to the community on their iPhones in distant elements of the world.
Apple has invested $450 million in growing the important infrastructure that helps Emergency SOS through satellite tv for pc which was launched with the iPhone 14 fashions final 12 months. Apple is utilizing Globalstar’s satellite tv for pc tech and property to make the characteristic work.
Many of us anticipated the corporate to announce the pricing for the service however the extension means Apple nonetheless wants a while to in all probability give it a wider rollout which may justify charging a payment for the service.
Apple has the primary-transfer benefit with this characteristic that was purported to be a part of the Android ecosystem by now however Qualcomm hasn’t seen the uptake it anticipated and was lately pressured to finish its cope with Iridium for the satellite tv for pc service.
