Land mobile communications satellite mission (LAMOCOSAMIS) Task 1: Market study

Land mobile communication service demand in Europe and the Mediterranean basin in the years 1995-2005 was estimated. A traffic model was derived. There is an exploding demand for land mobile communications in Europe, with overwhelming preference for two way telephone services. The users survey shows a surprising lack of sensitivity to prices and tariffs, which widely contributed to the preeminence of the needs for telephone services. This demand justifies that every effort be made to develop as fast as possible a compatible pan-European terrestrial mobile system. If a large proportion of the needs may be satisfied by terrestrial mobile system solutions, the potential remaining needs for telephony, outside of the presently planned terrestrial mobile, which can be served only by satellite, even under the pessimistic economic scenario and high cost/tariff assumptions, requires a number of equivalent telephone circuits which cannot be achieved with available state of the art technology.