satellite telephone

Example Sentences

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My satellite telephone was on the second floor of our old AP compound, and the window was near to the street.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2021

In addition to a transponder, solar panels, an emergency beacon and a desalinator for making fresh water, the Row of Life had a satellite telephone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2020

It was three foreign trekkers who used their satellite telephone to call the rescue helicopter that landed in Nepal's Langtang Valley around midday on Tuesday, April 28.

From Reuters • May 7, 2015

"We have no electricity, no water, no telephones and no bread," resident Abdullah Abazeid told The Associated Press by satellite telephone from Daraa, where the uprising began more than five weeks ago.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2011

Base Camp patched through a call on the satellite telephone to Jan Arnold, Hall’s wife, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer