“We’ve all experienced the inconvenience of dead zones in our cell service. But for many it’s more than an inconvenience, it’s a life-or-death situation, or simply the only way to communicate with the outside world. Satellite connectivity fills that gap on the fringes of connectivity. Innominds brought the depth of engineering expertise we required to help us build an absolutely seamless customer experience.”

Bullitt Satellite Messenger is the world’s first, and currently only, app to send text messages via a GEO satellite network. Devices ready to connect to the Bullitt Satellite platform have been available across Europe since April 2023. These include the Cat S75, the most reliable phone ever for advanced two-way satellite messaging, location sharing and SOS assistance and the motorola defy satellite link, a compact, lightweight accessory that allows any Android or iOS device to connect to the Bullitt Satellite Messenger platform.

On either device, the app integrates with the user’s existing contacts to provide a seamless experience when using satellite to communicate. The time to initially connect to the satellite and send a message is around 10 seconds.

Chief Product Officer Bullitt Group

“Supporting Bullitt Group to build Bullitt Satellite Messenger was an exciting ‘world’s first’ project and a perfect example of how our integration expertise at the edge can be applied. An ‘invisible’ and seamless integration of satellite networks into a smartphone network creates enormous technical challenges. Combining technical integrations with an easy-to-use customer interface to create a compelling solution is one of the many areas where we excel.”

Bullitt Group is also licensing the patented Bullitt Satellite Messenger app and solution to third parties to offer a robust, always on service to customers.

Bullitt Satellite Messenger is the first 3GPP standards-based satellite NTN or ‘direct-to-device’ service. It connects with a cell service to access existing geostationary satellites, providing affordable and continuous coverage over existing, well-established infrastructure. With this new technology, customers can message over satellite, as long as they have a clear view of the sky.

Bullitt Satellite Messenger is built to utilize a cellular data connection wherever possible, with the intention of saving customers from unnecessarily using their satellite data allowance when a message could have been sent without charge over a standard terrestrial network. Device software switches to the satellite connection only when no cellular or Wi-Fi is available.

President, Strategic Accounts Innominds

Innominds is an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company headquartered in San Jose, CA. Innominds powers the Digital Next initiatives of global enterprises, software product companies, OEMs, and ODMs with integrated expertise in devices and embedded engineering, software apps and product engineering, analytics and data engineering, quality engineering, cloud and DevOps, and security. It works with ISVs to build next-generation products, SaaSify, transform total experience, and add cognitive analytics to applications. Visit: www.innominds.com