T-Mobile Treats Satellite as a Wholesale Service, Not Just a Phone Feature

T-Mobile is licensing its T-Satellite infrastructure—built on Starlink's constellation—to Fi, a pet-tracking company, for satellite-backed location reporting in dead zones. The move signals carriers view direct-to-device satellite as a wholesale capability to license into IoT categories broadly, not merely a headline differentiator for their own smartphones. Other tracking applications—hiking, cargo, livestock—may follow.