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Report: Apple is developing satellites so the iPhone can skip wireless carriers, Ars Technica

Report: Apple is developing satellites so the iPhone can skip wireless carriers, Ars Technica


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The company hopes to deploy something within five years, according to Bloomberg.

      

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The report claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook has said it is a high priority and that the team is made up of “about a dozen “engineers from industries like aerospace and satellite design. While the long-term outcome of the work is not fully decided, it could allow iPhones to directly communicate with one another without using carrier networks, or it could improve location services and other key features of the devices.

Former Google satellite and aerospace engineers Michael Trela ​​and John Fenwick lead the team, Bloomberg’s sources say. They left Google in to join Apple. They report to Apple’s iPhone engineering lead. The company has also hired prominent wireless engineer Matt Ettus and established executives Ashley Moore Williams (Aerospace Corp) and Daniel Ellis (Netflix).

While it’s uncertain that the final outcome of this project will be freedom from carriers, it’s not surprising that Apple would at least explore that possibility. It has struggled against and with carriers throughout the history of the iPhone, and Apple’s philosophy of seeking end-to-end integration of all aspects of a product is well-known. The company is also rumored to be developing silicon that would replace Intel CPUs in its Mac products, for example, and it is attempting to develop its own cellular modems to include future iPhones.

Bloomberg’s sources did not clarify whether Apple plans to build and deploy these satellites themselves or if it plans to instead work with an established player in that space.

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