satphonen.
/ˈsatfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈsætˌfoʊn/ A telephone that transmits and receives signals via satellite, rather than using terrestrial landlines, radio masts, etc.; = satellite telephone n. at satellite n. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1991 Re: CNN from Baghdad in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Jan. After a day and a half the wire was cut and only the Satphones were available.
2011 Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 7/2 It was lucky we had the sat phone because we really had seen no one out there, it is very remote.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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