'Completely Mechanical' Phone to Hit Retail

[darkguset]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I don't think that satellite phones talking to each other run directly through satellites. They would be routed through a ground based station.[/citation]

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phone

Check the "Use in disaster response" heading...

Besides all this is a joke. Just take it lightly and don't worry about it.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]darkguset[/nom]http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phoneCheck the "Use in disaster response" heading...Besides all this is a joke. Just take it lightly and don't worry about it.[/citation]

I still don't think a sat phone would work after the apocalypse. Sure, if a small area (say a US State) has its entire cell infrastructure wiped out, they can re-route to other areas. But if the entire world's phone network goes down... I just don't think that a satellite works completely autonomously from any ground source. That article really doesn't specify exactly how they work in that respect.

 

[darkguset]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I still don't think a sat phone would work after the apocalypse. Sure, if a small area (say a US State) has its entire cell infrastructure wiped out, they can re-route to other areas. But if the entire world's phone network goes down... I just don't think that a satellite works completely autonomously from any ground source. That article really doesn't specify exactly how they work in that respect.[/citation]

Well that depends on the "apocalypse". If God is to come down to Earth, i do not think we will need any kind of "communication", lol.
On the other hand, there are true stand-alone satellite phones with antennas that work completely independent from any base stations and can establish point to point communication, do a Google and you can find out. A lot of rich people use them to communicate from their yachts or isolated islands, etc. They also use them on ships instead of radio for emergencies, etc. They can even be paired with a ground station to provide Internet access to remote areas.

 

[gm0n3y]

It just seems to me that your sat phone would communicate with the satellite, which would send the signal back down to a ground station which would route the call. If that call is to another sat phone, it would then connect back up to a satellite which would then connect to the other user.

Of course I may be wrong, perhaps satellites have enough intelligence coded into them to handle these types of situations without any contact with the main servers/stations on the ground. I can't imagine that sat phone to sat phone connections (over the same network) happen all that often.