Can you make phone calls over Starlink?

[Richard22]

I noticed many good comments on here from Starlink customers. I'm interested to know if you can make phone calls over the link since it includes a router that I assume includes WiFi capabilities. I know most cell phones these days are capable of WiFi calling. What about delay since the signal is bouncing off satellites? This also assumes the Starlink network is connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network.

TIA

 

[Forkyfinder]

I noticed many good comments on here from Starlink customers. I'm interested to know if you can make phone calls over the link since it includes a router that I assume includes WiFi capabilities. I know most cell phones these days are capable of WiFi calling. What about delay since the signal is bouncing off satellites? This also assumes the Starlink network is connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network.

TIA

Use it everyday for that. Sometimes much of the day. Rarely - id get dropped calls - but thats been 2+ years ago.

Starlink is fundamentally different than other existing sat internet options (in how it works) theres a lot less latency/lag - i wouldnt worry at all about it and i suspect you might be comparing it to traditional sat internet.

 

[MTGomer]

Yes. I do it all day every day.

 

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[Sandbrew]

Starlink has been awesome at my house where I have struggled with reliable internet and phone service for 25+ years. My phone service was so bad I even sued USWest in a case action lawsuit and won in the late 1990s....but that's a story for a different day. Once I confirmed Starlink was good to go with speeds similar to what MTGomer posted we dropped our land line for phone service and our Centrystink internet as well as our our Dish Network. I make ton of calls all on WiFi calling and never drop. The system has been 100% reliable in all weather conditions at my house in the mountains of Colorado. The Starlink receiver has a built in heater to melt snow! You may not like Elon but is internet service is a 10/10.

 

[jdf]

Starlink at our house we moved to was game changer. No cell service at all and no cable options at all. Got Starlink and WIFI calling. Super fast everything and awesome service WIFI calling.

 

[Bambistew]

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Thats faster than any of the landlines we have here.

I'm going to get the service, I can't wait to work from my travel trailer all summer long.

 

[BenP]

Used to drop calls all the time, since starlink have had no issues even with multiple devices going at the same time.

 

[mtmuley]

Yep. Like my Starlink. Thank you Elon. mtmuley

 

[buckbull]

I'm still able to WFH 4 days a week. Starlink for internet and phone. i had a few connections to some linux servers drop multiple times today, not sure if it was starlink or the shitty corporate VPN. But its been better than spectrum internet when i lived in town.

 

[Sytes]

I noticed many good comments on here from Starlink customers. I'm interested to know if you can make phone calls over the link since it includes a router that I assume includes WiFi capabilities. I know most cell phones these days are capable of WiFi calling. What about delay since the signal is bouncing off satellites? This also assumes the Starlink network is connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network.

TIA.

Starlink short story by, Me. Are you entertained yet?

Centurylink was absolute garbage, taking the subsidized govt rural internet money and not doing jack squat, simply letting the basic old phone lines continue breaking down service.

Repair tech would occasionally make it to our house and straight up tell us, he basically comes out and switches the most recent complainant to one of the stronger phone outlets at the main box and wash, rinse, repeat as another along our rural dirt residential road would later call to complain. It was not fiberoptic, straight old school phone line and no intent to run fiberoptic.

Starlink rolled out for qualified rural locations and we gave it a shot. 100x's faster than Centurylink straight away.
At first, our phone calls would drop. No cell signal and dropped centurylink brought us to depend on Starlink. It was evident as a new satellite would enter view a second or two after another would leave.
More satellites released and less and less dropped and Netflix, Amazon, streaming YouTube became the norm at the house.

Starlink is flipping awesome. Trying to learn the process and expense associated with a mini dish for our travel trailer or if it's worth it as most places, it seems, we're able to use our phone as a Hotspot for streaming a movie - such as the long, long, trailer with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz...

As for Elon? He can suck it! Though thanks for the awesome internet and sat phone capabilities.