Satellite phones had all but dropped out of public consciousness these past few years , but now with journalists using them to cover on the state of war in Iraq MobileTracker has a well-timed post on how you could get your own orbiter phone . They ’re surprisingly cheap . Qualcomm has a $ 600 handset out , which is about what you might expect to pay off for the P800 from Sony Ericsson . And the architectural plan are n’t too unfit either , Globalstar ’s plan costs $ 34.95 for 30 minutes of airtime a month , with redundant second cost 99 centime . The reportage sounds great as well : “ when you click for the reportage mathematical function it s just the intact Earth . It s a beautiful affair . ”
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