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A satellite phone is simply put a mobile phone that communicates with orbiting satellites directly and depending on the system being used your coverage area can be found the United States and 120 countries around the world. While most commonly used on expeditions into remote areas where a regular cell tower or landline could not reach, they are not used only for business. Many people now use them for hiking, camping or any situation where no other means of communication may be available or limited. While useful in these areas, the phones themselves are quite large. A retractable antenna, and accessories including antenna for vehicles, charger for home and car add to versatile use.
Business, outdoor enthusiasts need the ability to communicate when traveling. It is thought that about 50% of the world has little or no phone service. Satellite phones have become more affordable, eliminating the cost of running landlines or building cell towers – which in turn often times takes away from the landscape. Satellite phones offer worldwide access, essential in cases of emergency that may affect landline and cell towers. In events such as 9/11 when cell communications were down were due to the network being unusable or overcrowded with too many calls, the emergency satellite phone used by law enforcement and rescue teams aided in keeping the teams in constant contact with one another.
Cell phones on the other hand, are indispensable for everyday needs and many find that the benefits far outweigh the issues and challenges associated with them. Choices for children and seniors, applications for healthcare and accessories for motorcyclists, offer use by everyone who needs to stay in touch. In addition also available now are features to advise emergency care for common symptoms, and find near by healthcare by simply entering your zip code. The use of cell phones has become indispensable to law enforcement officers.
Cell phones, as they have evolved over the last 20 years, are multifunction pieces of technology. What was once used as a way to communicate in an emergency or for businessmen on the go has become a multimedia system for music, videos, texting and of course phone calls. Cell phones also come with the capabilities to sync computers to share information like phone books, calendars, pictures, ring tones and more.
Cell phones connect to a network of base stations, which in turn connect to a public phone network.
While most of those who may use satellite phones do so for work purposes, cell phone users have also turned using satellite phones as an alternative for better coverage.
Clearly satellite phones have an advantage over cell phones for use outside of the coverage of the cell tower network. Remote access worldwide is a key advantage to satellite phones.
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