August 7, 2025 • 8 mins
#TECHTALK w/ Marc Saltzman – T-Mobile Launches Its Cellular Starlink Service / Instagram adds reposting, location map, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Thursday at eleven thirty, which means it's time
for tech talk.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I surprised Elmer when I said, I know, well, I mean,
he's busy talking to Tom Hanks dancing.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is tech Talk brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Byler friend Mark Saltzman joined us to talk about technology
and Mark I am a Team Mobile customer and had
the satellite beta available to me over the course of
the last couple of months. And it was fun because
in my neighborhood there's a couple of dead spots cellular wise,
and I get a notification on my phone that said, hey,
(00:38):
if you need to send a message, you could send
a message via satellite right now.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I didn't need to, but it was nice to know,
well you might, right. I mean, according to the company,
there's over five hundred thousand miles of area of terrain
in the US that does not has no coverage with
cellular towers. So you may emergency situation find yourself needing this,
which is which is handy to have and unlike some
(01:05):
of the other solutions like what Apple and Samsung are doing,
where you need a certain type of phone and you
got to hold it up and move it around and
find the satellites and all it. This is a much
simpler process, so you're right though, Gary. It was in
beta for a while, but they officially launched it last week.
It's it's official, and it's also open to non mobile
customers as well, which a lot of people don't know about.
(01:28):
But it is a partnership with Starlink, and yeah, you
may find yourself off the grid. It's it's a it's
a great service that is right now text only, but
it's early days, right, It's it's just launched, but one
day there could be voice communications, maybe video, but right
now it's for those who need to reach someone, and
it works with virtually any phone over the last four years.
(01:49):
That's the good news. And you don't have to do
any kind of funny sort of tin hat thing where
you're trying to get service. This will just work. It'll
seamlessly connect from going from cellular towers to satellite.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It's so funny these days, since this this signal is
so great everywhere. When you do lose the signal when
you're you know, on a date with Eric, hiking or something, oh,
it's so odd and you feel this weird sense. I
don't want to use the A word, but this just
weird sense of not being connected. I mean, part of
it's freeing, but part of it's like, ooh, what if
something happened.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, so now I'm curious to know what that A word.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Is in my anxiety.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I like, it's over that words.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So, but I hear you. I visited my elder my
oldest son, who's working at a summer camp in the
middle of the wilderness, and I visited him for Visitor's Day.
Please allow myself to introduce myself and I, yeah, I
wanted to contact my folks so that their grandson can
say hi. And it's like I had zero bars. It's
(02:53):
like kind of on an island.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's weird.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And yeah. So it's like, yeah, you really do feel
it because you're right. It's that contrast to the fact
that we have ubiquitous five G in urban areas. But yeah,
so this is newly launched. It has been in beta
for a while. You can read more about it at
T Mobile's website. But it is a partnership with Starlink.
Other carriers are doing similar things as well, not always
(03:17):
with Starlink. There's other partners, but the ideas that we're
having a greater connection with those who matter when you
need it, which is which is always good.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Instagram is changing some things up too. I am not
the most savvy Instagram user, but I realized that they
did not allow reposting of things for a long time,
and now they're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, that's right. So if you saw something on Facebook
that you liked or on X you can easily, you know,
a click of a button or tap of an icon,
share that content with your fam, your fam family or
friends or followers and which all may be the same thing.
And so now you can do that on Instagram. It
(04:00):
was not easy before there were third party apps that
let you copy and paste a story or a post
a reel, but now you can do it. What's get
garnering more buzz about the new Instagram features and speaking
of stay connected everywhere you go, Like we just talked about,
they're rolling out something that Snapchat has had for years,
(04:21):
and that's a mapping feature. So people either love or
hate this, but just know that it's opt in. But
the idea is that you can share your location on
a map so that your friends on Instagram can instantly
see your little icon when they're looking at a map
of where they are. I remember with Snapchat. I remember
we took a family vacation a couple of years ago
to Aruba, and my kids were, I think in high
(04:43):
school at the time. They're like, oh, I wonder if
any of our friends are nearby, And they opened up
their phones and went to Snapchat and they saw a
couple of people that they didn't realize we're on vacation
on the same island that we were on, and they're like, oh,
we should And then they ended up getting together and
going to a club. And so now Instagram and they've
copied snaw chat before with stories. By the way, if
you remember, that's another thing that Snapchat started that Instagram borrowed,
(05:06):
so medows doing it again. So with Instagram it's opt in.
You can share your location so that you can get
together with friends when you happen to be in the
same place. You could just quickly at a glance see
who's near you if you want to grab a cup
of joe or go to a club.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He'll get nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
No, A were No, It's all good. What mom and
dad didn't have the A a hotel rooms were in
a strange country.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, it seems with these updates and these changes that
all of our social media apps that for you know
that five eight years ago were all very different. They're
all becoming the same kind of app, now, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's fair, That's fair. They're all borrowing features from each other.
And I'm sure Snapchat also, I can't think of any examples,
but they're also copying something that Medo is doing. But
Threads is basically a town He's town square digital town
square that you know that Twitter was is. Uh so Look,
I mean Meta may have been the first with Facebook,
(06:09):
even though that was, you know, not exactly uniquely unique
at the time, but they were kind of they sort
of were the trailblazer, I think, and they paved the
way for everybody else. Meta is now copying some of
the things that work on other platforms, right and then
and and Elon is looking to China at what some
of those apps are doing, like we Chat, where it's
(06:30):
like an all all in one app. It's your digital wallet,
it's your it's your communications app, it's your social media things.
I mean, it's they're trying he's trying to roll X
into all of that, and so yeah, it's it's imitation,
is the sincere's form of flattery, as they say, So
it's all good. Just choo, choose your poison, Pick your.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Poison, right, What do you plan for the weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's that's a better question. Well, my wife is in
Vermont on a road trip with some girlfriends. Oh, she's
coming back on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What are they up to in Vermont?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, they're in Stowe, which is I think one of
the bigger cities. They went to Burlington as well. They
visited the the Ben and Jerry Factory, which is Yeah,
they're just that's they're at a friend's, like a friend's
summer home, just chilling, and my wife loves road trips.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Great strippers and Stow.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Oh I didn't know, Okay, yeah, I don't think that's
on that that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You've never been to a Smugglers notch.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Come on, that's not a real name. It is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No, it's a state park, state park.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was just gonna say, that's a great name for
a striper. I thought so too.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
There's actually a state park in Stowe, Vermont called Smugglers
Not State Park.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And just googled it and made it up.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No, no, I did google it, but I did not make
it up.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh Mark, I hope that your wife brings you home
a T shirt from smugglers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I've got the A now, I've got the here a
lot and that does not down for a rouse. Okay, guys,
thank you. Mark.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Follow Mark on on your favorite social media ga uh
follow him on x at Mark Underscore Saltsman, m A
r C Underscore Saltsman
It is Thursday at eleven thirty, which means it's time
for tech talk.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I surprised Elmer when I said, I know, well, I mean,
he's busy talking to Tom Hanks dancing.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is tech Talk brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Byler friend Mark Saltzman joined us to talk about technology
and Mark I am a Team Mobile customer and had
the satellite beta available to me over the course of
the last couple of months. And it was fun because
in my neighborhood there's a couple of dead spots cellular wise,
and I get a notification on my phone that said, hey,
(00:38):
if you need to send a message, you could send
a message via satellite right now.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I didn't need to, but it was nice to know,
well you might, right. I mean, according to the company,
there's over five hundred thousand miles of area of terrain
in the US that does not has no coverage with
cellular towers. So you may emergency situation find yourself needing this,
which is which is handy to have and unlike some
(01:05):
of the other solutions like what Apple and Samsung are doing,
where you need a certain type of phone and you
got to hold it up and move it around and
find the satellites and all it. This is a much
simpler process, so you're right though, Gary. It was in
beta for a while, but they officially launched it last week.
It's it's official, and it's also open to non mobile
customers as well, which a lot of people don't know about.
(01:28):
But it is a partnership with Starlink, and yeah, you
may find yourself off the grid. It's it's a it's
a great service that is right now text only, but
it's early days, right, It's it's just launched, but one
day there could be voice communications, maybe video, but right
now it's for those who need to reach someone, and
it works with virtually any phone over the last four years.
(01:49):
That's the good news. And you don't have to do
any kind of funny sort of tin hat thing where
you're trying to get service. This will just work. It'll
seamlessly connect from going from cellular towers to satellite.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It's so funny these days, since this this signal is
so great everywhere. When you do lose the signal when
you're you know, on a date with Eric, hiking or something, oh,
it's so odd and you feel this weird sense. I
don't want to use the A word, but this just
weird sense of not being connected. I mean, part of
it's freeing, but part of it's like, ooh, what if
something happened.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, so now I'm curious to know what that A word.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Is in my anxiety.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I like, it's over that words.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So, but I hear you. I visited my elder my
oldest son, who's working at a summer camp in the
middle of the wilderness, and I visited him for Visitor's Day.
Please allow myself to introduce myself and I, yeah, I
wanted to contact my folks so that their grandson can
say hi. And it's like I had zero bars. It's
(02:53):
like kind of on an island.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's weird.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And yeah. So it's like, yeah, you really do feel
it because you're right. It's that contrast to the fact
that we have ubiquitous five G in urban areas. But yeah,
so this is newly launched. It has been in beta
for a while. You can read more about it at
T Mobile's website. But it is a partnership with Starlink.
Other carriers are doing similar things as well, not always
(03:17):
with Starlink. There's other partners, but the ideas that we're
having a greater connection with those who matter when you
need it, which is which is always good.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Instagram is changing some things up too. I am not
the most savvy Instagram user, but I realized that they
did not allow reposting of things for a long time,
and now they're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, that's right. So if you saw something on Facebook
that you liked or on X you can easily, you know,
a click of a button or tap of an icon,
share that content with your fam, your fam family or
friends or followers and which all may be the same thing.
And so now you can do that on Instagram. It
(04:00):
was not easy before there were third party apps that
let you copy and paste a story or a post
a reel, but now you can do it. What's get
garnering more buzz about the new Instagram features and speaking
of stay connected everywhere you go, Like we just talked about,
they're rolling out something that Snapchat has had for years,
(04:21):
and that's a mapping feature. So people either love or
hate this, but just know that it's opt in. But
the idea is that you can share your location on
a map so that your friends on Instagram can instantly
see your little icon when they're looking at a map
of where they are. I remember with Snapchat. I remember
we took a family vacation a couple of years ago
to Aruba, and my kids were, I think in high
(04:43):
school at the time. They're like, oh, I wonder if
any of our friends are nearby, And they opened up
their phones and went to Snapchat and they saw a
couple of people that they didn't realize we're on vacation
on the same island that we were on, and they're like, oh,
we should And then they ended up getting together and
going to a club. And so now Instagram and they've
copied snaw chat before with stories. By the way, if
you remember, that's another thing that Snapchat started that Instagram borrowed,
(05:06):
so medows doing it again. So with Instagram it's opt in.
You can share your location so that you can get
together with friends when you happen to be in the
same place. You could just quickly at a glance see
who's near you if you want to grab a cup
of joe or go to a club.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He'll get nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
No, A were No, It's all good. What mom and
dad didn't have the A a hotel rooms were in
a strange country.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, it seems with these updates and these changes that
all of our social media apps that for you know
that five eight years ago were all very different. They're
all becoming the same kind of app, now, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's fair, That's fair. They're all borrowing features from each other.
And I'm sure Snapchat also, I can't think of any examples,
but they're also copying something that Medo is doing. But
Threads is basically a town He's town square digital town
square that you know that Twitter was is. Uh so Look,
I mean Meta may have been the first with Facebook,
(06:09):
even though that was, you know, not exactly uniquely unique
at the time, but they were kind of they sort
of were the trailblazer, I think, and they paved the
way for everybody else. Meta is now copying some of
the things that work on other platforms, right and then
and and Elon is looking to China at what some
of those apps are doing, like we Chat, where it's
(06:30):
like an all all in one app. It's your digital wallet,
it's your it's your communications app, it's your social media things.
I mean, it's they're trying he's trying to roll X
into all of that, and so yeah, it's it's imitation,
is the sincere's form of flattery, as they say, So
it's all good. Just choo, choose your poison, Pick your.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Poison, right, What do you plan for the weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's that's a better question. Well, my wife is in
Vermont on a road trip with some girlfriends. Oh, she's
coming back on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What are they up to in Vermont?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, they're in Stowe, which is I think one of
the bigger cities. They went to Burlington as well. They
visited the the Ben and Jerry Factory, which is Yeah,
they're just that's they're at a friend's, like a friend's
summer home, just chilling, and my wife loves road trips.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Great strippers and Stow.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Oh I didn't know, Okay, yeah, I don't think that's
on that that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You've never been to a Smugglers notch.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Come on, that's not a real name. It is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No, it's a state park, state park.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was just gonna say, that's a great name for
a striper. I thought so too.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
There's actually a state park in Stowe, Vermont called Smugglers
Not State Park.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And just googled it and made it up.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No, no, I did google it, but I did not make
it up.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh Mark, I hope that your wife brings you home
a T shirt from smugglers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I've got the A now, I've got the here a
lot and that does not down for a rouse. Okay, guys,
thank you. Mark.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Follow Mark on on your favorite social media ga uh
follow him on x at Mark Underscore Saltsman, m A
r C Underscore Saltsman
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