The long, checkered history of satellite phones
When cellphones first started to grow in popularity in the late 1980s, it wasn’t clear if the network that powered calls would center on a terrestrial or satellite service. Neither system was particularly built out at the time.
Satellites were appealing because they could provide connections in the most isolated areas of the planet, including the polar regions, out at sea or even on planes, where no land-based networks could reach. These satellite phones would need a direct line of sight to the sky to work, but that didn’t diminish interest.
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