BSNL has introduced a satellite phone priced at Rs. 1.34 lakh, which works out to roughly $1,405 using the July 9 rupee level of around Rs. 95.40 per dollar. The headline feature is simple enough for anyone to understand: the phone can make calls even when there is no regular mobile network nearby. It does this by connecting to satellites instead of depending on cell towers.That makes it very different from a regular smartphone.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
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