Exchange of communication traffic in satellite communication system

A ground communication network (2) is made up of clusters of telecommunication networks (4,5,6) and land mobile telecommunication networks (7,8,9), while a satellite communication network (3) comprises telecommunication satellites (12,13,14) and ground stations (15,16). For a satellite communication user (24) to connect to a network (5), a transmission path (25) is established and an address code is provided comparable with the country code for exchanging traffic within the satellite network. The address code and that of the corresponding mobile network are used to exchange traffic between mobile telecommunication networks and ground stations An independent claim is included for a telecommunication system