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You could live at my house, where our 802.11 wireless internet link is repeatedly referred to as "Satellite" by a certain member of our household


Or you could be me, with 5 different phones - one normal cellular, one satellite (iridium), one WiFi, one "normal" VoIP (cisco), and one experimantal late-90's philips/lucent shanon "webphone" with LCD and VoIP. And no "normal" landline phone. Imagine teminological confusion