If you’re headed to a remote area where terrestrial phones won’t work and you’re in search of a way to communicate with friends, loved ones, and colleagues, satellite cell phones will work where GSM international cell phones will not. But you may wonder how they work, even in extremely desolate areas. Unlike cellular phones, satellite cell phones don’t use “cells” or cell towers. As their name implies, satellite phones use satellites instead, with the signal going to the nearest satellite.
You can use satellite cell phones virtually anywhere, from the mountains and desert to very primitive areas, and even on the sea and from an airplane. This is where a satellite phone differs from a cell phone; a cell phone can only be used where there is service, leaving sparsely populated areas including the air and the sea out of the question for cell phone use.
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