T-Satellite is officially live, ushering in a revolutionary new era for application performance, connectivity, and capability. This isn’t just another piece of hardware in the sky—it’s the power source that will fundamentally change how your favorite apps work, communicate, and deliver value.
From AllTrails to WhatsApp
Satellite-ready apps are now a reality today – with support for even more OSes and apps being added seemingly every day! – opening new possibilities for staying connected in even the most remote locations.
T-Mobile has been working with dozens of app partners since announcing satellite data in June. These apps are built to deliver core experiences and critical services in environments where no traditional cell signal can reach. While the data experience may differ from the blazing fast 5G speeds of America’s Best Network, when beyond the reach of any earthbound carrier tower, being able to stay connected to the formerly “outside world,” by way of satellites in space, is an absolute game changer.
In addition to device native apps like Google Messages and Find Hub, Pixel Weather, Apple Music, Weather and Fitness and Samsung’s Weather app, even more apps are now tuned for the T-Satellite experience:
- T-Life: The center of the T-Mobile customer experience now includes T-Satellite support. Customers can see and launch satellite-ready apps; share their location via SMS and can even chat live with a built-in helper to answer T-Satellite questions. T-Life puts the best of T-Mobile at customers’ fingertips.
- AllTrails: Find your next hike with the world’s most popular app for outdoor exploration. Discover and experience the perfect trail for you, from park strolls to mountain summits. Navigate and share your location in real-time. Join a community of more than 90 million trail-goers who hike, bike, and run more than 500,000 trails around the world. T-Satellite is currently supported for Android.
- AccuWeather: Never get caught unprepared. AccuWeather gives you hyper-local forecasts down to the minute, plus real-time storm alerts for your exact location. Track severe weather better, check the UV index and monitor air quality, so you can be better prepared and make the best weather-informed decisions, even with the slightest change in conditions.
- CalTopo: For the planners and explorers — CalTopo lets you build custom maps for your next hike, ski trip, or climb. Plot your route, track your location in real time, and stay safer with features like slope angle shading and wildfire activity layers. Share your maps with friends to keep your whole group on the same page.
- onX: Choose your adventure with onX’s suite of apps — onX Backcountry, onX Hunt, onX Offroad, and onX Fish. Discover hiking trails, powder stashes, camp sites, public and private property boundaries, two-track and single track, and lakes teeming with fish. Explore the unknown with confidence, and be able to adapt on the fly, even when far away from cell service, with real-time weather conditions, weather forecasts and animal movement predictions, powered by T-Satellite connectivity.
- X: Stay in the loop even in remote locations. With X, you can scroll trending topics, share updates, and join conversations from virtually anywhere. Post text, photos, GIFs, or videos — and even control when high-res media loads so you don’t waste data but still see all the moments that matter.
- WhatsApp: With WhatsApp on T-Satellite, you can send messages including sending voice notes, sharing photos or even calling your entire group chat. Whether you’re on a mountaintop, out in the desert, or stuck in a random dead zone at your kid’s soccer game, you can still see faces, hear voices, and share updates securely. For emergency services, the best way is to text-to-911 via your device’s native messaging service.
T-Satellite with Data for Businesses
In addition to consumer use cases, T-Mobile is extending the power of T-Satellite into business applications to deliver always-on connectivity across iOS and Android — automatically included with SuperMobile and T-Priority plans.
By bringing secure connectivity to environments where field teams have never before had access, T-Satellite is unlocking new business-first use cases and advancing mission-critical operations virtually everywhere.
Business and government organizations can start exploring these apps today, with even more on the way:
- Dialpad: Dialpad is a leading AI-powered communications and agentic platform, turning every conversation into an opportunity and empowering businesses with AI that doesn’t just assist, but acts.By incorporating T-Satellite within Dialpad’s messaging platform, customers can now keep employees and teams connected during outages, emergencies, or in locations without terrestrial cellular coverage.
- FLORIAN: FLORIAN is an advanced incident command and accountability platform designed to enhance safety, coordination, and situational awareness. Originally designed for first responders, FLORIAN’s capabilities can be leveraged in many private sector industries such as hospitality, logistics, and public works. Now with T-Satellite connectivity, personnel can connect even in the most remote or disaster-stricken areas.
- MultiLine: MultiLine provides secure communications, compliance capabilities, and robust integrations that differentiate it from typical communications platforms. Now available over T-Satellite, these features offer a key differentiator in government, healthcare, legal, finance and other regulated industries.
- T-Mobile Direct Connect: Your business communication is critical, and we have you covered with voice messages and Push-to-X messaging including pictures, videos, location sharing, and emergency alerts. Now, you can communicate and request help in areas beyond terrestrial mobile networks.
How To Use T-Satellite-Ready Apps
Using satellite-ready apps is just as simple as everything else on T-Satellite — because nothing about the connectivity experience changes for the customer. Just like with texting and emergency alerts, the phone automatically connects to the satellite network the moment a terrestrial signal drops. No special settings, no pointing your phone at the sky — it just works. That means when customers launch a satellite-ready app, it connects exactly as they expect, only now it offers critical services, rather than full data-heavy experiences, enabling it to continue working in places no cellular towers can reach.
