One needs specialized gear to tap into the satphone network, few of us can justify the expense of satellite phone service, and fewer still care to carry around a brick with a chunky antenna on it ...

One needs specialized gear to tap into the satphone network, few of us can justify the expense of satellite phone service, and fewer still care to carry around a brick with a chunky antenna on it ...

And unlike the dedicated satellite phones of the 1990s, usually the size of a brick, these services will be beamed directly to modern handsets. “It brings mobile service to those areas that we ...