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Re: [at-l] Cell phones and wilderness
The Motorola project, originally called Iridium because they planned to cover
the globe with 77 sattelites, is still ongoing. The sattelites were to be low
cost, low orbit models, thus enabling low power phones to reach them. Initial
test areas were to be NY City to Washington DC and San Fransicso to LA. I
have not seen anything about this project in ages.
The concept would enable for the first time, your own personal phone number,
that could reach you wherever you were - work, home, woods, planes, anywhere.
If you want to reach someone, simply call their local number, and it will find
them anywhere int he world. Interesting concept. I'll program all my calls to
virtual voice-mail when I'm in the woods...
The after market phone system integration and support would be a huge
business, and the technology would certainly replace the cell phone as we know it.
Paddler
Thomas Greene wrote:
>
> >This is the best arguement I've seen against cell phones. The occasional
> >cell phone user is fairly easy to ignore but all those towers won't be.
> >Couldn't they work off satellites instead? (I'm not a communications
>
> I believe that is coming soon. Motorola is putting satellites
> in to orbit as we speak. Of course, it will make it so that there
> are very few places where a cell phone can't be used.
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