What is the use of mobile phones to support satellite communication?Do consumers spend more money?Expert: Users must pay more

On September 6, at the Huawei Mate 50 series and new autumn conferences in the whole scene, Huawei officially released the Mate 50 series mobile phones.

At the press conference, Huawei's Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong said that the Huawei Mate50 series mobile phone is the world's first popular smartphone to support Beidou satellite news.

When you are in an unmanned region, the sea in the sea, the crowd of the sea, and the earthquake rescue, you can send out the text and location information out of the APP, keep the text and location information from the outside world, and support multiple positions to generate trajectory maps.

The day before, Geely, a subsidiary of Geely, who acquired 79.09%of Meizu Technology, announced that it will launch the world's first direct low -orbit satellite consumer mobile phone. According to media reports, the upcoming iPhone 14 series will also support satellite communication functions.

Many consumers will inevitably have doubts. What is the use of mobile phone support for satellite communication? What are the advantages? Do you want to spend more money for this?

What is the use of "breaking through the sky"?

As early as September 2nd, Yu Chengdong revealed that Huawei Mate50 had a new breakthrough in communication technology, "breaking the sky upwards."

However, at the press conference, Yu Chengdong did not introduce the new communication technology he had previously called "breaking the sky".

According to the Sino -Singapore Jingwei, satellite communication is not new technology, and it can even be said to be quite mature and widely used. However, it is relatively fresh to integrate this technology into commercial mobile phones.

Satellite communication, that is, through the sky's communication satellites to send and receive information, such as text and voice, often used in characteristic areas and groups and groups of characteristics such as geological exploration, ocean transportation, forest patrol, etc., the communication efficiency is relatively low and expensive. Satellite communication also has requirements for devices. For example, the antenna power is required to be large and anti -interference. Therefore, common satellite phones are basically equipped with a long antenna, and generally can only be used in outdoor scenes.

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Applying satellite communication technology to smartphones can be said to make up for the lack of operator's signal network coverage. For example, in the "signal desert" areas such as the ocean and forests, satellite communication can give mobile phones the ability to call and send text messages. As for becoming a "brick".

Do consumers spend more money for this?

It is worth mentioning that at present, the price and tariff standards of a satellite phone are not close to the people. Zhongxin Jingwei reporters noticed that on the e -commerce platform, the price of a portable satellite phone was between 5,000 and 10,000 yuan, and some even tens of thousands of yuan. In terms of tariffs, taking the use of maritime satellites in China as an example, except for 200 yuan to enter the network fee, the fee per minute is about 1.8 yuan.

So, after the mobile phone supports satellite communication, does the user pay for it?

Telecom analyst Fu Liang said that users must pay more through satellite communications through ordinary mobile phones. This part of high -cost mobile phone manufacturers may be difficult to bear, but it is not clear how to pass the charges. "It may eventually be collected by the operator. After all, for users, it is more troublesome to set up another charging system outside the operator." Fu Liang said.

Xiang Ligang, an observer of the communication industry, also believes that users must pay more through satellite communication through ordinary mobile phones, and the tariffs will not be cheap. "The current charging method is uncertain and may follow the operator channel, but it will definitely not be very cheap. Because it requires high operation and maintenance costs, and this resource is relatively scarce, the corresponding threshold will be high. The possibility of charging is relatively high. "Xiang Ligang said.

It is understood that the Huawei Mate50 is priced at 4,999 yuan, the Huawei Mate50 Pro is priced at 6,799 yuan, the pre -sale is launched at 18:08 on September 6, and it is officially launched at 10:08 on September 21.

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