Daily Wireless reports that AT&T Mobility will resell satellite service and phones from TerreStar Networks, by the end of this year. TerreStar is scheduled to launch its first monster satellite on July 1st. It uses satellite/cellular handsets designed to be about the same size as a conventional smartphone.
Using licensed 2GHz radio spectrum, it will provide voice service as well as data at approximately 64K bits per second, said TerreStar Chief Technology Officer Dennis Matheson in ComputerWorld.
TerreStar is taking advantage of SDR (software-defined radio) chips coming from Infineon and Qualcomm, says EE Times.
