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AT&T to Sell TerreStar Hybrid Cellular/Satellite Smart Phone (9/30/09)
TerreStar Networks announced an agreement between TerreStar and AT&T to bring to market the first fully integrated satellite cellular smart phone. The TerreStar network, scheduled to go live in 2010, will combine AT&T's wireless connectivity with the ability to use an all-IP satellite network as back up throughout the United States.
Using one phone number and one device, users will be able to access voice and data services in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and offshore coastal waters over either the AT&T cellular network or the TerreStar satellite network. The TerreStar GENUS smart phone combines 3G terrestrial wireless capabilities with satellite voice and data in a standard smart-phone size and form factor. The device uses the Windows Mobile operating system and includes features such as a touch screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a QWERTY keyboard.
"TerreStar is pleased to announce AT&T as a distribution channel. TerreStar remains focused on offering an integrated satellite and terrestrial communications solution to enable true ubiquity and reliability virtually anywhere in the United States to help solve the critical communications and business continuity challenges faced by government, emergency responders, enterprises and rural communities," said Jeffrey Epstein, president of TerreStar Networks.
TerreStar launched the world's largest commercial satellite, TerreStar-1, July 1. The first end-to-end call over TerreStar-1 was completed July 20. TerreStar announced the successful completion of in-orbit testing Aug. 27.
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