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The paper touches upon a number of issues relevant to Personal Communications via Satellite. Rather than expanding on technological issues — deeply addressed in the literature an attempt is made to identify critical system/service aspects related to the deployment of Satellite Personal Communication Networks (S-PCN). Market and regulatory aspects are regarded as keeping pace with technological breakthroughs necessary to physically implement and deploy the systems. Presently proposed “little LEOs”, “big LEOs” and “super LEOs” are briefly summarized, and the European Commission point of view on those systems is preliminarily outlined. Inmarsat plans to deploy the “Standard-P” system are also indicated.
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Ananasso, F. (1995). System, Market and Regulatory Aspects for Satellite Personal Communications. In: Mobile and Personal Satellite Communications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3023-9_1
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