Starlink lancar satelit sokong rangkaian selular

SPACEX telah melancarkan enam satelit pertama Starlink yang boleh menyokong rangkaian selular pada telefon pintar.

Sistem Direct to Cell yang digunakan dilancarkan dengan kerjasama syarikat telekomunikasi T Mobile di Amerika Syarikat.

Menerusi teknologi Direct to Cell, pelanggan tidak lagi perlu risau peranti pintar mereka tidak mempunyai rangkaian selular lebih-lebih lagi apabila berada di kawasan luar bandar atau ketika melakukan aktiviti riadah.

Teknologi ini turut membolehkan rangkaian selular satelit dinikmati ketika berada di tengah-tengah laut.

Sistem telekomunikasi satelit pada iPhone pada waktu ini hanya menyokong penghantaran teks dan bukannya internet serta panggilan suara.

Ujian akan dilakukan bagi melihat kemampuan teknologi ini sebelum ia ditawarkan kepada orang ramai.

Selain T Mobile, syarikat telekomunikasi lain yang akan menawarkan Direct to Cell kepada pelanggan mereka ialah KDDI (Jepun), Optus (Australia), One NZ (New Zealand), dan Rogers (Kanada). -Amanz

Consider This: Transnational Repression (Part 2) — Are Our Governments Enabling It?

Authoritarian regimes don’t stop at their own borders—often reaching across countries to track, detain, and deport refugees, activists, and migrants. This is transnational repression: when a state extends its repression beyond its own beyond their borders to control or punish its citizens abroad. Malaysia and Thailand, two of Southeast Asia’s biggest hubs for migrants and refugees, have become key battlegrounds for transnational repression. With Malaysia helming ASEAN chair this year, what role does the region play in resisting, or enabling, transnational repression? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Krittaporn Semsantad, Programme Director at the Bangkok-based Peace Rights Foundation.

Consider This: Transnational Repression (Part 1) — Are Our Governments Enabling It?

Authoritarian regimes don’t stop at their own borders—often reaching across countries to track, detain, and deport refugees, activists, and migrants. This is transnational repression: when a state extends its repression beyond its own beyond their borders to control or punish its citizens abroad. Malaysia and Thailand, two of Southeast Asia’s biggest hubs for migrants and refugees, have become key battlegrounds for transnational repression. With Malaysia helming ASEAN chair this year, what role does the region play in resisting, or enabling, transnational repression? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Douglas Teoh, spokesperson from the End Transnational Repression Alliance.