- Elon Musk reportedly reached an agreement with an Apple subcontractor
- The goal is to expand satellite emergency call support areas
- Satellites should be deployed by 2025
In November 2022, the Cupertino company strengthened the security of its usersby integrating the satellite emergency call for iPhone 14.
This technology was initially introduced in the United States and Canada. We had to waitone more month for it to be available in France. As a reminder, its objective is to allow victims of an accident tocall for help using a satellite connection. And this, even in a white zone (area not served by mobile networks). To benefit from this feature, however, you must own an iPhone 14, regardless of which model in the range.
Since its introduction, the technology has successfully fulfilled its role and has already helped many people.This was again the case recently with a family who found themselves trapped in the flames in Hawaii.
Today, the apple company intends to extend this security service to other areas. Thus, Globalstar is partnering with SpaceX and Elon Musk. As a reminder, Globalstar is Apple's subcontractor in charge of deploying satellites enabling emergency SOS.
Long-standing negotiations?
An agreement was reportedly reached this Monday between the two parties. Thus the subcontractor will have to make a first payment of $64 million to Elon Musk's firm, for the satellites to be put into service in 2025. We do not currently know which areas will be targeted with this deployment. This agreement concluded between Apple and Elon Musk is not trivial,the latter already mentioned a rapprochement with Cupertino in September 2022.
Are there still white areas in France?
It may be understandable that places without populations are deprived of mobile networks. However, one might believe that France has few or no habitable white areas. Well, make no mistake,just 5 years ago, 541 municipalities were still classified as “white zones”. In 2018, they could neither make calls via mobile network nor receive SMS messages. Since then, operators have invested 3 billion euros to put an end to it.
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