Both AST and Starlink are reporting speeds of around 10 Mbit/s. Those are not like the service Globalstar is providing to Apple phones for just emergency texts.
To: Eugene Y Chang <eugene.chang@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: [Starlink] SpaceX/Starlink says it's ready for a fall
satellite-to-cell service with T-Mobile
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This is a fallback that will only be if there is no other coverage, and will be
a poor data rate.
I would expect that the impact to the phone battery would be less than the phone
continually searching for a tower
Also, SpaceX has pushed back, according to them this isn't observed interference
with their signals, instead they reconfigured a satellite to the direct-to-phone
frequencies and were able to detect them
we'll see what the real story is.