Verizon launches satellite texting for select Android devices (Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25), enabling users to text any US phone number outside of cellular coverage, with a rollout over the next two weeks.

If you're a Verizon customer, you can now send text messages via satellite to any device, regardless of carrier, when cell service is unavailable. The mobile carrier said Thursday that it's ...

Verizon has announced an expansion of its satellite texting capabilities, making it the first company in the US to allow customers to send text messages via satellite when outside of terrestrial ...

The carrier promotion will apply to both new and existing users, but you'll want to read the fine print before deciding.

Verizon today is announcing that all customers on a current myPlan service plan will received guaranteed free satellite text messaging on qualifying devices. The company is also introducing a new ...

Unlike competing ‘direct-to-device’ (D2D) satellite services from the likes of Starlink, AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global, ...

Starting Thursday, Verizon is implementing a three-year price lock on its MyPlan mobile and HomePlan home internet accounts. The price lock applies automatically to all customers; it's not a program ...

Apple and SpaceX subsidiary Starlink have been rolling out competing satellite features that allow smartphone users to send text messages while ...

For a deeper dive on how Verizon's new service works, check out our CNET demo of Samsung's Galaxy S25's satellite texting for Verizon customers. Josep Jornet, a professor in the Department of ...