Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile now offer emergency satellite messaging services for select Android smartphones. Non-emergency SMS satellite messaging will arrive at a later date. The satellite messaging service will act as a fallback when customers do not have access to a cellular or Wi-Fi network.

Verizon became the first carrier to bring satellite texting to Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 users, and now more carriers are following suit.

Perhaps that's why it is rather surprising that a day after Verizon announced the launch of its satellite messaging service, Xfinity and Spectrum have done the same. It's made even more interesting since T-Mobile has been testing its own take for quite some time. Let's talk about the newest entrant to the satellite messaging club.