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SpaceX has a plan to make your phone carrier obsolete

SpaceX plans to deliver phone service directly from satellites in space, potentially eliminating the need for traditional ground-based carriers and their tower networks.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSpaceX has a plan to make your phone carrier obsolete, by sending service straight from the sky to your phone.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWith me is Barnaby Strood, author of Can You Hear Me Now, Forever.

  3. Barnaby StroodGloria, thank you. I predicted this. I also predicted the opposite, and both books are available, one bar of each.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSo which is it? Do carriers die, or do they live forever?

  5. Barnaby StroodBoth, in a sense. The sky replaces the tower, but the tower remains, spiritually.

  6. Barnaby StroodI have one bar right now, actually two, one and a half.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou are in a field, Mr. Strood, talking about phones that work anywhere. Do you have signal?

  8. Barnaby StroodGerald does. Gerald is my gas station charger. I'm one bar. Maybe half a bar. Let's say the idea of a bar.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe idea of a bar. I'm asking again: do you have service?

  10. Barnaby StroodI had a carrier, they let me go in the spring, and I can't discuss it. I'm on a hotspot from a man named Dwayne.

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDwayne's carrier is the one you said was obsolete.

  12. Barnaby StroodIt is obsolete, Gloria. It's just very close to my truck. Zero bars. Chapter nine covers this.

  13. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThank you, Barnaby, and good luck with Dwayne. I asked for a sandbag report on tonight's waves of change, and it said the Hong Kong airport clip is the only thing nobody could hold back.

  14. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorKenji, I'd like to see it in person.

  15. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDr. Byte, I assume you have a gadget that insulted you tonight. Tell us which.

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