Survey updates for rumored’s iPhone 14 support for satellite communication / 傳聞中的 iPhone 14 支持衛星通訊的調查更新
2 min readAug 29, 2022
Survey updates for rumored’s iPhone 14 support for satellite communication.
- The increasing frequency of natural disasters and geopolitical conflicts in recent years will likely make emergency texting/voice services via satellite communication a must-have smartphone feature.
- Satellite communication is one of iPhone 14’s test items before mass production, and Apple had completed hardware tests for this feature. iPhone 14's satellite communication mainly provides emergency texting/voice services.
- Whether iPhone 14 will offer satellite communication service depends on whether Apple and operators can settle the business model.
- I learned that Apple had already completed the hardware development of satellite communication in the iPhone 13. The lack of support is because the business model had not been negotiated.
- Hard to predict precisely when the iPhone will offer satellite communication service, but I believe it will happen eventually.
- MediaTek had demonstrated satellite communication with commercial 5G smartphone hardware (https://bit.ly/3pT6UK0).
- Huawei will hold a media event on September 6 and announce the new model Mate 50, which will likely offer emergency texting services via satellite communication supported by the BDS (BeiDou Navigation Satellite) system.
- MediaTek and Huawei’s efforts further prove that satellite communication will likely eventually become a must-have feature of smartphones, including the iPhone.
- The operator most likely to partner with Apple for satellite communication is Globalstar.
- In the satellite communication service ecosystem, satellite communication operators like Globalstar have the highest entry barriers, which deserve investors’ great attention.
傳聞中的 iPhone 14 支持衛星通訊的調查更新。
- 近年來日益頻繁的自然災害和地緣政治衝突，可能將使透過衛星通訊的緊急簡訊/語音服務成為智慧型手機的必備功能。
- 衛星通訊是iPhone 14量產前的測試項目之一，Apple已完成該功能的硬體測試。iPhone 14上的衛星通訊主要是提供緊急簡訊/語音服務。
- iPhone 14是否提供衛星通訊服務，取決於Apple和運營商能否談妥商業模式。
- 我的理解是，Apple已經在iPhone 13完成了衛星通訊的硬體開發，商業模式未定是沒有支持的原因。
- 很難精確預測 iPhone 何時會提供衛星通訊服務，但我相信它最終會發生。
- 聯發科已經展示了在5G手機硬體上的衛星通訊功能 (https://bit.ly/3pT6UK0)。
- 華為將於9月6日舉行媒體發布會並發布新機Mate 50，Mate 50可能會通過北斗系統支持的衛星通信提供緊急簡訊服務。
- 聯發科和華為的努力進一步證明，衛星通訊最終可能會成為包括iPhone在內的智慧型手機的必備功能。
- 最有可能與 Apple 合作進行衛星通訊的運營商是 Globalstar。
- 在衛星通訊服務生態系統中，像Globalstar這樣的衛星通訊運營商進入門檻最高，值得投資者高度關注。
