Cell phones are starting to look up

While this has great potential they make it sound as if it will work anywhere. I have a Imarsat sat phone and I can 100% tell you it doesn't work in all situations. Example....
This summer in Montana specifically the lost trail pass area there was a bad car crash and I tried many times to call for help. The car also had emergency crash call which also could not connect on the crashed car. This was do to the mountains blocking the signal. Luckily the crash occurred with a 1000 feet of a call box on the road so help arrived fairly quick and the injured treated and transported. So that tv commercial that depicted a lady crashing off the side of the road in the trees and the car calling for help....yeah well I'm calling bs on that one. Sat phones don't work in trees.
 
kevin27 said:
While this has great potential they make it sound as if it will work anywhere. I have a Imarsat sat phone and I can 100% tell you it doesn't work in all situations. Example....
This summer in Montana specifically the lost trail pass area there was a bad car crash and I tried many times to call for help. The car also had emergency crash call which also could not connect on the crashed car. This was do to the mountains blocking the signal. Luckily the crash occurred with a 1000 feet of a call box on the road so help arrived fairly quick and the injured treated and transported. So that tv commercial that depicted a lady crashing off the side of the road in the trees and the car calling for help....yeah well I'm calling bs on that one. Sat phones don't work in trees.
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yea if you lose Sirrus/XM dont crash
 
kevin27 said:
While this has great potential they make it sound as if it will work anywhere. I have a Imarsat sat phone and I can 100% tell you it doesn't work in all situations. Example....
This summer in Montana specifically the lost trail pass area there was a bad car crash and I tried many times to call for help. The car also had emergency crash call which also could not connect on the crashed car. This was do to the mountains blocking the signal. Luckily the crash occurred with a 1000 feet of a call box on the road so help arrived fairly quick and the injured treated and transported. So that tv commercial that depicted a lady crashing off the side of the road in the trees and the car calling for help....yeah well I'm calling bs on that one. Sat phones don't work in trees.
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Totally different technology and setup. With Inmarsat, there's only one satellite visible from covered areas (and not all the earth, especially at the poles, is covered). As described, if the view of that one satellite is obstructed, it's not going to work. Starlink has thousands of satellites, and thousands more planned in much closer orbits and should cover the entire planet by the time the envisioned cell capability goes live. Even today, before the constellation is complete, a Starlink dish can easily be in range of five satellites, albeit for only a few seconds at a time. The Starlink cell capability will have limits on bandwidth and numbers of simultaneous users and is not intended to replace the terrestrial cell network. But, if realized, it's intended to ensure some amount of connectivity worldwide and without special equipment other than a standard cell phone.
 
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