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2. Satellite phone - Wikipedia

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   Satellite phone (Inmarsat) in use in Nias, Indonesia, in April 2005 after the Nias–Simeulue earthquake. A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do.

3. Iridium Communications - Wikipedia

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   Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 75 satellites: 66 are active satellites and the remaining nine function as in-orbit spares. [ 2 ] Iridium Satellites are used for worldwide voice and data communication from ...

4. Iridium satellite constellation - Wikipedia

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   The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, satellite messenger communication devices and integrated transceivers. Iridium Communications owns and operates the constellation, additionally selling equipment and access to its services.

5. List of communication satellite companies - Wikipedia

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   List of communication satellite companies This is a list of all companies currently operating at least one commercial communication satellite or currently has one on order.

6. Satellite Internet access - Wikipedia

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   Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband. Modern consumer grade satellite Internet service is typically provided to individual users through geostationary satellites that can offer relatively high data speeds, [ 1 ] with newer satellites using the K u band to achieve downstream data ...

7. Globalstar - Wikipedia

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   Globalstar. Globalstar, Inc. is an American satellite communications company that operates a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for satellite phone, low-speed data communications and earth observations. The Globalstar second-generation constellation consists of 25 low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites.