Isn't an Inmarsat phone with antenna, like, 8x heavier and 4x more expensive than a not-very-fancy 5G smartphone? A SMS limited to 160 characters for half a dollar?
Standard 5G is a lot more efficient. The difference seems to me at least the same as between a steam train and an electric train.
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Being able to send an SMS from deep in the Amazon or from Antarctica wasn’t “mostly solved 15 years ago”
Inmarsat has been offering that since at least 2008.
Isn't an Inmarsat phone with antenna, like, 8x heavier and 4x more expensive than a not-very-fancy 5G smartphone? A SMS limited to 160 characters for half a dollar?
Standard 5G is a lot more efficient. The difference seems to me at least the same as between a steam train and an electric train.