Satellite phone networks question

[ffutures]

Can anyone give me the name of a satellite phone network that had coverage including the UK in the 1990s, and was accessible via privately-owned hand-held (or easily portable) phone? I'm guessing Inmarsat is the most likely, but the Wikipedia article is a bit ambiguous about this - it reads like their service may have only been accessible via larger installations aboard ships and planes.

No real details needed other than the name of the network! And possibly the maker's name for the phone, which would be a nice bit of scene setting.

Later - thanks to major_clanger  and cdybedahl I'm going to go with a Magnavox satellite phone (briefcase sized) in the Inmarsat network. Many thanks to everyone who commented.

Comments

[major_clanger]

The table at the bottom of this link describes some early services. I dimly remember Inmarsat-M as being used as part of a portable, or at least luggable, mobile secure email system (terminal, crypto unit, router and laptop) by bits of the UK military in the late 1990s.

[ffutures]

Thanks, Inmarsat and the briefcase-sized terminal they mention sounds perfect.