Skylo announced that it has unlocked global satellite connectivity potential for one billion plus devices across a wide range of categories and industry verticals. According to the company, it has the world’s largest commercial standards-based direct-to-device network.
This growth reflects strong demand from both consumers and businesses for enhanced connectivity. According to a survey of 1,000 Americans conducted last month, 76% of respondents reported feeling frustrated, anxious, or unsafe due to coverage gaps in their cellular serivce.
Consequently, satellite SMS is emerging as an important solution to bridge gaps in traditional network coverage. For the 59% who face poor signals and the 20% who face it daily, satellite SMS helps to resolve poor connectivity and work as a lifeline for emergencies, daily navigation and staying connected with friends and family.
70% said the most critical use case was emergency services or navigation while 46% indicated they face coverage gaps in their neighbourhoods, on the way to work, or visiting friends and family. From the survey results, it paints the picture that consumers want enhanced connectivity in their daily lives and near their homes, not just when they are on a trip or on a hike. By connecting to a number of existing satellite constellations in the sky, Skylo provides a complete network overlay without coverage gaps in urban areas or at cellular network edges.
At CES in Las Vegas, Skylo communicated its vision and demonstrated forthe first time how it is building a new, standards-based ecosystem to support seamless direct-to-device connectivity from the ground up.
With Skylo’s satellite network service, seamless connectivity begins at the chipset level. This bottom up approach enables devices to take the lead finding a satellite signal when losing terrestrial cellular connectivity. The seamless user experience continues at the OS level with an integrated experience so consumers know when they are communicating via satellite and can do so in a repeatable and predictable manner. The company’s global reach is enabled by its use of Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) spectrum which has an existing regulatory framework in place worldwide. The use of MSS spectrum also avoids the need to utilise valuable carrier spectrum assets to deliver the satellite signal.
“2025 is the year for satellite connected devices at global scale — consumers and businesses will begin to experience seamless connectivity in their daily lives no matter where they go,” said Parthsarthi Trivedi, CEO and Co-Founder of Skylo. “For a satellite company, we spend an incredible amount of our time and energy working to ensure that all the elements here on Earth work together in a coherent and seamless manner. No one else has built an integrated experience from the ground up with a standards-based ecosystem of partners from chipset makers to module and device manufacturers, certification testing labs, SIM providers, and mobile carriers. We are paving the way forward for the entire industry to embrace enhanced connectivity in their products and services.”
To date, Skylo users have already sent millions of satellite-based messages across the globe and the network is capable of serving billions of devices across a fully licensed, globally harmonised satellite spectrum with ample global capacity for smartphones, cars, and IoT devices.
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