T-mobile Brings Free 911 Emergency Texting To At&t And Verizon Customers

T-Mobile is opening up entree to its Starlink-powered emergency texting service. The bearer announced connected Wednesday that anyone pinch a compatible telephone — moreover AT&T and Verizon customers — tin motion up to matter 911 complete outer for free.

In July, T-Mobile launched its “T-Satellite” service to customers crossed nan US for $10 per month, allowing some T-Mobile and non-T-Mobile customers to nonstop messages, stock their location, and access prime apps complete satellite. This work besides includes texts to 911, but now, that’s disposable for free.  

You tin motion up for emergency outer texting if you person a telephone compatible pinch T-Satellite, though location are immoderate beautiful notable exceptions. It doesn’t support phones pinch emergency outer texting built in, including nan iPhone 14 and later, arsenic good arsenic nan Pixel 9 and up (excluding nan 9A). That intends you tin only usage T-Mobile’s 911 texting if you person an iPhone 13, Pixel 9A, a Samsung Galaxy S21 and up, aliases a newer Motorola phone.

If you’re a non-T-Mobile customer, you’ll besides request to person an unlocked telephone pinch an eSIM.

T-Mobile customers tin motion up for nan emergency outer texting work by signing into their T-Mobile relationship online and choosing nan action nether nan “Manage Data & Add-ons” section. Everyone other tin enroll by signing up through T-Mobile’s website. Once you’re signed up, T-Mobile notes that your telephone will automatically link to T-Mobile’s emergency texting web successful areas without cellular coverage.