content: Question about Mobile phone apps and satellite comms Right so... at work in being asked to plug an app that connects the user to emergency services and gives your GPS co ordinates. So, this app in itself as it's an app and not built into the phone will require both a phone account with credit and reception this is a given (as opposed to dialing 112, any reception required) but here's the thing... I'm plugging  the app in my class and another trainer sitting in pipes up and tells me no, in a remote no reception area, that app will bypass cell towers location settings and your account limits and connect directly to satellite and put you through. Now unless I'm retarded there is no way what so ever for a standard cell phone to bypass cellphone towers and connect direct to satellite, there must be a medium, and you presumably must have both credit and reception for it to work, correct? Is there a piece I'm missing?