【XWBOO Market Analysis】 The development of communication technology always brings great influence to people's life , and from 2G to 5G, the development of communication technology brings a visual change is "fast." However, in many cases, "fast" is not the only direction for the development of communication technology, and problem solving is often the key to technological progress. The advent of satellite communications is a case in point. It is clearly the result of technological developments, but when this communication technology is applied to mobile phones, whether it is useful or not is controversial.
Satellite communication is the use of satellites as intermediate and subsequent communications between radio communication stations on Earth, including on the ground and in the lower atmosphere, and has the advantage of a large communication range. Strictly speaking, this is not a new technology, because as early as the 1960s, the technology has been started to be applied, and today, has become one of the important communication technologies.
In recent years, as the deployment of satellite networks in various countries continues to improve, the functionality and coverage of satellites have been further enhanced. In addition, the development of hardware makes the processing of micro base station module relatively easy, which makes it possible for mobile phone to become the hand-held station of satellite communication.
In fact, there are actual brands at home and abroad that have started to launch mobile phones that support satellite short message communication services, and the direct connection of smart phones to satellites seems to be a mainstream development direction. However, from the point of view of use, with the development of the traditional communication technology, the mobile network tariff has been controlled to a relatively low level, and the deployment of the communication base station is becoming perfect. By means of the mobile network and the communication APP or directly using the traditional calling and short message functions, the information exchange needs in most cases can already be realized. From this point of view, the addition of satellite short message communication services, in fact, is more like a gimmick to increase the selling point and price of mobile phones, for most people is an unnecessary service. After all, even with the help of Beidou-3, mobile phones can only transmit 120 Chinese characters at a time for satellite messaging. Not to mention the communication costs generated in this is not within the scope of ordinary users can bear.
But if we look at the technology itself, it's not the same. Mobile phone satellite communication, in fact, is to solve a signal processing architecture problems, as well as information transmission and reception problems. In other words, if on this basis, can continue to optimize, then the post-communication function will be further enhanced.
More importantly, the advantages of satellite communications are difficult to replace in specific areas. A more intuitive example is that in areas where traditional communications cannot cover, such as areas where optical fibers and base stations are inconvenient to deploy, satellite communications can easily solve the communication problems between the workers and the outside world. And the tool is just a cell phone that you need to use in your daily life.
In addition, the more important point is that mobile satellite communications are still in the early stage of development, and even rely on high-orbit satellites 36,000 kilometers away from the earth. with the development of the following low-orbit satellite Internet system, Higher-speed, larger-capacity messaging and voice-image communication services will also slowly be realized, and by then satellite communications will be able to break the advantages of distance and area limitations. Will allow the technology to have more application scenarios. And objectively speaking, satellite communication is not a substitute for terrestrial communication, the two should tend to merge and complement each other in the future development. In this respect, perhaps now the impact of satellite communications on mobile phone business is not obvious, but the future is likely to directly change the mobile phone communications market operation model.
Satellite communications can change the mobile communications market.
