Noah Samara, WorldSpace chairman, said the new system will use small satellite radio receivers about the size of current-day transistor radios and deliver digital quality sound.

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Although video satellite phones will spread power within the existing system by enabling small news organisations to do what, until recently, only the big boys could afford, they will not, by themselves, make everybody into an outside broadcaster.

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