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The T-Mobile Starlink cell phone service is scheduled to go commercial in July 2025. Here are the monthly service fees.
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from July 2025 the T-Mobile Starling
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direct to cell phone service will kick
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off as a commercial service In other
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words you'll start paying if you want to
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use it For now it's in a beta operation
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and it's available free to all who are
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signed up during that beta time Now
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there are broadly two categories of
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users T-Mobile users and non T-Mobile
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customers So that's the good news Even
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if you're not on T-Mobile you're on AT&T
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or Verizon and any of their subcarriers
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you can use the service Let's get right
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to the issues If you are on a premium
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T-Mobile plan whether you are a Go 5G
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next subscriber or a cheap priority
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subscriber for first
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responders the T-Mobile Star Link cell
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phone service is going to be free to you
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Completely free No monthly charges Sign
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up you use it for free Good Now if
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you're a regular T-Mobile
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subscriber there is a monthly service
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fee of $15 per line For every line that
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you want to subscribe to the direct to
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sell service there is a fee of $15 per
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month Now if you are one of the early
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adopters who had signed up for the beta
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service as at February
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2025 you get a discount You get to pay
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only $10 per month when the service goes
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commercial Take note that's if you were
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one of the early adopters and had signed
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up as at February 2025 If you're not a
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T-Mobile subscriber and you'd love to
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use the service that means you're either
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on Verizon or AT&T and any of their
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subcarriers your monthly service charge
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is
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$20 You will need an unlocked smartphone
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with eim support Note that means that
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entry-level and most budget smartphones
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are not suitable for this Your phone has
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to be unlocked because of course it's
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signing up for a service on another
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carrier and it needs to have eim support
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That's how it's going to be implemented
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or integrated into your phone you have
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those two criterias met you can sign up
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for the Starlink T-Mobile Direct cell
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phone service and use it from July 2025
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for $20 per month per line Now take note
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that for now this service includes only
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text messaging However Starink and
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T-Mobile are working to include voice
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data so that you can also do video calls
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do voice calls send videos send pictures
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and other files So that's it These are
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the monthly service charges for using
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the T-Mobile styling direct sale service
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from July 2025
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