T-Mobile has partnered with SpaceX’s Starlink to extend service to ‘dead zones’ that cell towers can’t reach, and it’s asking people to participate in a free test run. T-Mobile has launched a wide-scale beta satellite-to-cell service using SpaceX’s Starlink,

T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered direct-to-cell satellite messaging service is now open for anyone in the US to try for free — including people who aren’t T-Mobile customers. The service will be limited to text messaging at first but the company hopes to have some apps and even limited multimedia support ready by the time it goes live this summer.