Did you know that the first transatlantic telephone call was made via a radio telephone? It was 1927 and the service from New York to London was transmitted by radio waves. And it became the forerunner of the cellular telephone and the satellite telephone. The telephone underwent many more innovations and today we see a bewildering variety, in very many sizes and shapes flooding the markets.
There has since been a giant leap in the telecommunications area and today it is possible to send voice, data, pictures, video, and still pictures to distant lands at unimaginable speeds in analog and digital formats. Such information can also be transmitted through fibreoptic cable in the form of light waves. Also it is possible to send such information in the form of radio-waves.
A Satellite phone is a distinctive instrument. It has been devised to enable voice and other data transmission possible through a satellite in the form of radio waves. But there are many, many variations of landline telephones and even more variations in cellular phones. So what is the need for a satellite telephone? For one thing the user does not need the existence of cell-towers or cell sites....