Probably application-specific. Satellite for ships, cellular for commercial trucks, radio for remote mining trucks. There are also panic buttons for remote bac

Probably application-specific. Satellite for ships, cellular for commercial trucks, radio for remote mining trucks. There are also panic buttons for remote backpackers that collect gps coordinates and send them to a satellite. All things I wouldn't call satellite phones, even if they're basically just more rudimentary versions. Looks like the quote was referring to something else, though.