T-Mobile is deepening its tie with SpaceX, debuting a new broadband service for businesses called Super Broadband, that brings together 5G and Starlink in a fully managed service.
In a Tuesday announcement, T-Mobile explained that Super Broadband is designed to solve resiliency challenges for businesses to deal with outages, and businesses that only have one option for terrestrial internet. The service will orchestrate traffic between 5G and Starlink in real time to deal with any outages.
T-Mobile said it comes with a financially backed 99.99% uptime guarantee. Customers will have one bill.
Orchestration for the service is supported by Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions’ NetCloud Manager. T-Mobile said it will also expand its ecosystem with partners like Inseego, providing enterprise wireless broadband and edge connectivity solutions.
“We’ve built a solution that’s resilient by design, available everywhere it counts and simple to deploy, use and scale. This is about taking the complexity out of connectivity and replacing it with virtually unbreakable connectivity to inspire confidence, so businesses of any size can focus on outcomes, not obstacles,” commented André Almeida, president of Growth and Emerging Businesses for T-Mobile.
T-Mobile has been working with Starlink since 2022 on the direct-to-cell service, which allows consumer cell phones to send messages via satellite when they are out of the range of service. The T-Mobile service is called T-Satellite, and entered service over the summer.
AT&T recently announced a similar broadband + satellite partnership with Amazon’s constellation Amazon Leo. AT&T plans to use Amazon Leo to deliver fixed broadband services to business customers.
