A scene from T-Mobile’s Super Bowl commercial advertising its Starlink beta service. Screenshot via T-Mobile

T-Mobile will be launching its new nationwide satellite service to subscribers in late July. T-Mobile’s satellite-to-mobile service, T-Satellite with Starlink, will be commercially available on July 23 and will include SMS texting, MMS, picture messaging, and short audio clips.

In October, T-Satellite plans to launch a data service to allow application experiences on the satellite network. T-Mobile revealed the latest details about T-Satellite, June 23.

T-Satellite will go live commercially on July 23 after being in a beta program for the last few months. T-Mobile says this satellite-to-mobile network will automatically connect to most smartphones made in the last four years, with no special equipment or setup required.

The service will be included at no extra cost with T-Mobile’s Experience Beyond plan. For customers on other plans and other carrier’s customers — including AT&T and Verizon customers — the service will be available for $10 per month. At launch the service includes 911 texting via satellite. T-Mobile also plans to offer 911 texting service to any mobile customer on any carrier with a compatible device.

Also at launch, T-Satellite will support SMS for both Android and iOS subscribers, MMS, picture messaging and short audio clips for Android, with iOS support to follow.

T-Mobile said it is working with a select group of application providers to offer satellite-enabled apps in the data service from AccuWeather, AllTrails, Apple, Google, WhatsApp and X, with more to come.