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As I started writing this up a couple of things occurred to me. First, why in the world am I getting excited about 4G when I have no idea when I am going to get 3G in my neck of the woods? Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you view it, I get to travel a lot for my job and I get to experience the 3G love most of you take for granted. Second, how funny is an integrated satellite-terrestrial system if you hadn’t heard about it before? I was immediately daydreaming of photo editing an Alien holding a Tilt in his hands. But, since I didn’t know anything about the 4G integrated satellite-terrestrial system or TerreStar, I decided to try to find out a little more about it.

I started with the Engadget Mobile post today (CLICK HERE) that is stating that AT&T has signed a “reciprocal roaming agreement” with TerreStar and hence aligning themselves to take advantage of the “integrated satellite-terrestrial system”. There are several supporting sources for this if you care, iStockAnalyst.com being one of them. But what in the world is 4G and a TerreStar integrated satellite-terrestrial system?

The DailyWireless.org defines it as:

TerreStar is developing a geosynchrounous satellite phone system with terrestrial repeaters. The company plans to target its service at commercial, government, rural and public-safety users in North America. TerreStar is developing bridging technology to provide interoperability across legacy Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems and cellular, satellite and land-based communications.

I’m not going to copy and paste the whole DailyWireless.org article on this but I will link it and say that it is a very interesting read. CLICK HERE for the whole article.

Also, TerreStar’s website further expands on their Network and it can be found by CLICKING HERE.

In any case, it appears that TerreStar should be ready after being delayed to deploy their “integrated satellite-terrestrial system” in April 2009.

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