Satellite phones are extremely portable and easy to use voice communication devices that have especially come as a boon to people living in the remote areas, people going on missions to inaccessible areas and rescuers in disaster struck areas. These are places where other services like terrestrial phone connections and mobile services are either not available or do not work properly.

Satellite phone helps the user to make and receive calls through a satellite - either a geosynchronous one or through Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. Between the two, LEO services are better and more popular.

Since satellite phones draw their signals through the satellite, they are able to receive and transmit voice and data from any location under the satellite’s footprint.

Hence, whether it is the middle of the Sahara desert, the top of Mount Everest, a clearing deep within a South African jungle, you can stay connected from anywhere you are. This unprecedented coverage area makes the satellite phone the ultimate in telephone connectivity – anywhere phone.

Satellite Phone Advantages

The unbeatable advantage that satellite phone has over terrestrial services and other wireless services is its anywhere availability. The omnipresent satellite footprint makes the phone services available anywhere, making the satellite phone an indispensable communication device for adventure missions, explorer missions, rescue missions and also for people who live in areas which do not enjoy powerful communication infrastructure.

Particularly, in disaster struck areas, where the first causality is usually the telecommunication network because of physical destruction or overloading or both, satellite phones serve as the only communication link.

Satellite Phone Providers’ Comparison - Globalstar And Iridium

Iridium steals a march over GlobalStar in terms of wide coverage, quality and service guarantees and range of service plans.