Verizon has partnered with California-based Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communications provider Skylo to enable direct-to-device messaging service for the carrier’s customers using “certain” smartphones. Starting this fall, some Verizon customers will be able to use emergency messaging and location sharing even when a terrestrial cellular network is not available, and next year, said the carrier, users […]

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