The integration of personal satellite conmunication with terrestrial cellular: a business perspective

Wireless telecommunications, who would have thought that it would have been so commercially successful in such a short period of time? Who could have seen the technological advancements that have come about in this field over the last twelve to fifteen years? There has been vast amounts of money spent to build the infrastructure in place today, and millions of subscribers attracted to these still rapidly growing services. The investments made in different technologies were based upon the best available technologies at the time of commitment to invest and subscriber were enticed to buy into these "new" technologies hoping to benefit from the freedoms wireless services could offer, As new markets and more cities and countries offered compatible wireless services, cellular roaming became essential a large portion of the subscriber base.