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Old 07-11-2015, 03:52 PM
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I think you're right about reception. That's not the issue. I believe satellite phones are expensive mostly because phone calls are 1-to-1, whereas things like XM and GPS are 1-to-many. There's only so much bandwidth available and consuming it on a 1-to-1 phonecall is way less efficient than a single stream of XM going to thousands of listeners.
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