What you need to know
- Verizon detailed its partnership with Skylo to bring commercial direct-to-device satellite-based texting services to its customers "this fall."
- Skylo is the same satellite network Google uses for the Pixel 9, and Verizon states it will offer satellite roaming capabilities whenever its network is lost.
- Verizon states that the service will arrive for "certain smartphones," but it does not specify which phones users can expect.
