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Long exposure of star trails creating circular patterns over two satellite dishes against a night sky.

Starlink Direct-to-Cell, also called Starlink Mobile or D2C/DTC

Starlink Direct-to-Cell (also called Starlink Mobile or D2C/DTC) is SpaceX’s satellite-to-smartphone service that lets ordinary, unmodified 4G/LTE phones connect directly to Starlink satellites for basic connectivity in areas without terrestrial cell coverage. As of August 2026, the Direct-to-Cell service has been live since July 2025, commercially launched with T-Mobile in the US. Its constellation comprises…

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De Facto Tolls Solidify: Iran Moves to Formalize Strait of Hormuz Fees and Transit Bans

The Brent oil market shows an extreme divergence between the paper price (futures contracts) at $109 and the physical price (spot) at $141, a $32 gap reflecting a strong "backwardation." Normally, future prices are higher than spot prices (contango) due to storage costs; this inversion signals an immediate scarcity of physical oil. The $141 price…

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