Terrestrial mobile phone service from AT&T will be combined with satellite service on a pocket-size smartphone. By W. David Gardner InformationWeek Satellite phones are downsizing another notch taking them step further away from the era when they were the size of granite pavers. Satellite startup TerreStar announced that it plans to market a pocket-sized smartphone when it debuts its combo terrestrial-satellite phone service in a few months. Plans call for TerreStar service to combine terrestrial service from AT&T with TerreStar's satellite service, based on a $300 million orbiting satellite that will cover the U.S .and Canada, reaching as far as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The TerreStar phone includes some of the same silicon that is used in Apple's iPhone. AT&T has exclusive rights to market the iPhone in the U.S. so the...
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