Satellite phones need a ground station. The signal goes from your satellite phone to the satellite, satellite to a ground station, then the ground station routes the signal to the terrestrial network through the Internet so you can tell your wife hi from the Amazon.  If there’s no electricity for the ground station or no internet because the zombies ate the maintenance people, there’s no satellite phone service.
You can run a ham radio off of a 12V car battery and get big range across UHF, VHF, and HF. That would let you talk to just about anybody.
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