China will launch satellite phone, the signal can cover China's land and the entire South China Sea

After the Tiantong1-01 launched successfully, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology began to arrange the satellite phone specific number segment, some companies also launchedthe domestic satellite phone. According to report, the satellite phone developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, is expected to launch after two or three months.

So far the only relay of the domestic satellite phone is Tiantong1-01, the signal can cover China's land and the entire South China Sea. China will lanch a series of Tiantong in the next five years, the signal will cover global.

The application of satellite phone is very wide, especially useful in emergency communication, maritime communication and when the ground communication network destroyed by natural disaster.

This satellite phone supports GPS and BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. In addition, it can also use the ground mobile network, including LTE 4G and 3G networks, while supporting SMS, WeChat, video and data transmission. The satellite phone can be switched freely between the ground communication network and satellite communication.

The communication fee of this satellite phone more than 1 RMB/min, which is one-tenth of In-marsat's.

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