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It is my understanding that Starlink does not do home-grown crypto of the 3GPP-kind. Also because it is closed ecosystem there is no need for SIMs and the associated deployment mechanisms.

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Their "direct to cell" service is a regular LTE network, so it must be using all the same protocols in order to be compatible with existing devices.

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