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Before the decade is out, you will be able to pull a telephone from your overcoat and make a call from anywhere on Earth.
Motorola Inc. announced plans today to build a satellite-based cellular-phone system that would allow users of a portable, 25-ounce phone to make and receive calls in regions where phone service is troublesome or unavailable.
Current portable phones cannot be used in many areas because they rely on radio antennas atop buildings or towers being close enough to relay a signal.
Motorola's Iridium system, which has been under development since 1987 and is expected to be fully operating by 1996, envisions a constellation of 77 satellites to relay calls. Motorola said it hopes to charge less than $3,500 for each phone.
Motorola, the world's largest maker of cellular phones, is the first company to announce plans for such a system.
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