CES: Bullitt to unveil satellite messaging service - Electronics Weekly

Bullitt, the UK mobile telephone shaper is unveiling two-way outer messaging work – Bullitt Satellite Connect – astatine CES 2023. The work volition beryllium commercially disposable successful Q1 2023.

Motorola and Bullitt person confirmed that the adjacent instrumentality successful the scope volition beryllium the archetypal smartphone to enactment Bullitt’s outer messaging service.

The companies person a strategical marque concern to make rugged mobile phones nether the Motorola marque and are reinforcing this committedness with the motorboat of this highly precocious connectivity diagnostic successful a Motorola smartphone.

Designed for anyone and everyone who has ever been frustrated by a deficiency of compartment coverage, Bullitt Satellite Connect provides reliability and bid of caput to millions of radical that live, work, play oregon roam into the fringes of coverage.

Bullitt has developed proprietary bundle and work components to supply outer substance messaging via a elemental to usage OTT exertion (Bullitt Satellite Messenger). The work is the culmination of 2 years of adjacent moving relationships with the astir precocious exertion partners successful the tract of NTN (non-terrestrial network) communications including the world’s starring chipset supplier MediaTek, starring captious lawsuit effect specialists FocusPoint International and Skylo, Bullitt’s outer connectivity partner. Skylo built and operates the web to supply the ‘always on’ Bullitt outer messaging service, and manages connections to devices implicit existing licensed GEO outer constellations, specified arsenic Inmarsat and others.

“Bullitt Satellite Connect solves a existent connectivity problem,” says Bullitt co-founder Richard Wharton,  “Americans nonstop 6 cardinal SMS substance messages each time but, owed to the sheer standard and topography of the country, nary azygous bearer covers much than 70% of the US onshore wide and astir 60 cardinal Americans suffer sum for up to 25% of each day**.

That means hundreds of millions of instances wherever radical who privation to pass via their telephone cannot. Coverage blackspots persist to a greater and lesser grade the satellite over. We person a genuinely planetary solution. Bullitt Satellite Messenger provides full reassurance that you volition person a transportation wherever you person a wide presumption of the sky.”

The work works by combining Bullitt smartphone hardware and the bespoke OTT app, Bullitt Satellite Messenger, to nonstop messages to immoderate smartphone, anyplace you person a wide presumption of the sky. The work volition archetypal effort to link via Wi-Fi oregon cellular arsenic normal, and if neither are disposable it volition link via satellite. Anyone tin person a connection arsenic a elemental SMS to their existing telephone and tin respond by downloading the associated Android oregon iOS app.

The outgo of the messages volition beryllium deducted from the outer messaging subscriber’s program with nary outgo to the recipient. SOS Assistance is escaped for the archetypal twelvemonth and subscription plans commencement from arsenic small arsenic $4.99/ month, with heavier usage plans besides available.

For much accusation oregon to publication a objection astatine CES interaction l.meakin@bullitt-group.com