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lxgryesterday at 5:07 AM0 repliesview on HN

Kind of: Phones will probably need some Iridium-specific RF hardware (unless their existing baseband and amplifiers happen to cover the band it uses), but the baseband and signaling stack won’t be proprietary anymore if I understand it correctly.

Several mass-market phones already are IoT-NTN compatible, e.g. Google’s Pixel line.