iPhone 14: emergency calls via satellite in France will be possible before the end of the year 1

iPhone 14: emergency calls via satellite in France will be possible before the end of the year

The possibility of making an emergency call from the satellite connection integrated into the iPhone 14 has been announced since September 2022. It is finally available for US and Canadian users, provided they have downloaded the latest update ‘iOS 16’.

Additionally, Apple added:They will be available in France from December, but also in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. When this feature was introduced, there was no doubt that it would be coming to the Old Continent for a few years. So it was a perfect surprise for us Europeans.

Satellite emergency calls will reach the United States and Canada first, and then France a month later.

They can now call emergency services free of charge from their smartphones. in areas with little or no service from traditional telephone operators. This feature was made possible in North America thanks to a partnership between Apple and Globalstar, an American satellite phone company.

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This technological achievement is not insignificant, because it does not rely on the infrastructure used by operators like Starlink. There is no question of using a special antenna here. Only the chip integrated in the iPhone 14 is used; a small technological achievement that will have Installing the antennas cost the company no less than $450 million and other equipment.

Emergency calls can be made at the user’s initiative by dialing the emergency police number or asking Siri. The Emergency Pager is automatically triggered when a collision is detected and there is no action to switch from a cellular connection to a satellite dish. The device will give you instructions to follow. so that communication takes place in the best possible conditions, but if you are sedentary or unconscious, the iPhone 14 will still try to call 911 (or 15 in France).

Source : TechCrunch

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