Just don’t pay for the service. As far as the actual signal, you can’t disable it because it works on your standard cell phones that have been around for years and years. It will get a signal, no matter what. Because it’s basically nothing but a cell phone tower in the sky.
Yes, it’s an extra charge to use the network to send and receive messages. But what happens is when your phone would normally lose a signal entirely, it will be able to pick up the weaker signal from the satellites as long as you can see the sky. So the only way to avoid it would be to go underground or where you can’t see the sky anyway.
Technically, the signal from the satellite is available for everybody, even in, say, densely populated urban areas, but the signal strength from regular towers swamps it, and so it doesn’t pick it up. But when you are in a rural area with no other signals, your phone can hear the weak signal from the satellite.
Just don’t pay for the service. As far as the actual signal, you can’t disable it because it works on your standard cell phones that have been around for years and years. It will get a signal, no matter what. Because it’s basically nothing but a cell phone tower in the sky.
Oh so it’s an extra charge? Easy enough then. I assumed it just did the thing my phone does now, which is go into sos mode and search for a satellite.
Suppose I should read all the words huh
Yes, it’s an extra charge to use the network to send and receive messages. But what happens is when your phone would normally lose a signal entirely, it will be able to pick up the weaker signal from the satellites as long as you can see the sky. So the only way to avoid it would be to go underground or where you can’t see the sky anyway.
Technically, the signal from the satellite is available for everybody, even in, say, densely populated urban areas, but the signal strength from regular towers swamps it, and so it doesn’t pick it up. But when you are in a rural area with no other signals, your phone can hear the weak signal from the satellite.
Gotcha, thank you!
No problem