AT&T has announced that it has enlisted satellite communications provider Globecomm to provide backup connectivity for IoT devices that find themselves out of range with its cellular networks, and those it uses in roaming agreements. This is a global deal, with a lot of upside, for business customers that are able and willing to swallow the additional BOM cost of adding the necessary satellite hardware to their devices. For now, the new capability is being aimed at businesses and government customers, not consumer-facing ventures. With asset tracking likely to comprise the bulk of these deployments, AT&T is gunning for the customers able to absorb the cost of the service and the prerequisite hardware, in high-margin applications where that cost can…