At the moment Verizon has introduced the launch of its non-emergency satellite tv for pc texting service. This may allow you to textual content anybody by connecting to satellites together with your Google Pixel 9 collection gadget or your Samsung Galaxy S25 collection smartphone.
It comes as an growth of the provider’s beforehand launched emergency-only satellite tv for pc connectivity, which additionally works for the aforementioned telephones solely. Verizon boasts that the brand new satellite tv for pc texting capabilities allow its prospects to be “the primary within the US to ship textual content messages to some other buyer gadget by way of satellite tv for pc when outdoors the attain of terrestrial mobile networks”.
“Upgrades enabling this service” are set to start out at present and can proceed over the following two weeks, in keeping with Huge Purple (does anybody nonetheless name it that?). This wording makes us imagine that Pixel 9 models and Galaxy S25 units on Verizon must obtain a software program replace which permits this to work, so for those who do have a type of Pixels or S25s on Verizon, look out for an replace within the subsequent few days.
