Satellite Phone

Indian Telcos Turn to Countryside for Growth
BusinessWeek - India’s largest mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel recently announced plans to double its tower strength to 80,000 in rural areas by 2008. The government is also eyeing to provide satellite connections in areas not reached by communications towers.

Apple profit jumps 67 percent
Winston-Salem Journal - Since dropping the word computer from the company s name in January, Jobs has entered the mobile-phone arena with the introduction of the iPhone. He s counting on the iPhone, released June 29, to sell 10 million units in 2008, capturing 1

AT&T Revenue Up on BellSouth Acquisition
PC World - in consumer and business data usage, including messaging, media bundles, laptop connectivity and smart phone connectivity, AT&T said. In the broadband space, AT&T’s connections, including DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), AT&T U-verse and satellite

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Defying naysayers, Iridium finds a business model
InfoWorld - Max Engel, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan in Palo Alto, Calif., said that while the original Iridium idea of being a satellite phone service for the masses “was an obvious example of stupid failure,” the change in business plan raises the service’s

Alcoa, LDK, Massey, Sirtris, XM Satellite: U.S. Equity Movers
Bloomberg - Bear Stearns & Co. analyst Mike McCormack said the Internet phone-service provider’s $80 million settlement with Sprint Nextel Corp. would not reduce its risk of bankruptcy. XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR US) had the biggest gain

Big Brother or Big Help? OnStar 2009 can stop moving cars via
Ars Technica - Starting in 2009, police may be able to stop vehicles in their tracks with a simple phone call. The technology would come OnStar 2009 can stop moving cars via satellite Hard drive technology wins the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics Thunderbird still has

Get Bullish On Garmin And Verizon
Forbes - The company makes digital navigation products that use global positioning system technology to deliver geographic location data wirelessly through satellite communications. Its handheld and portable products incorporate electronic maps and

Legally blind WHOI scientist inspires kids
Cape Cod Times - Fraser’s physics students got a chance to speak to Bower, 47, via a satellite phone conference between their classroom and the Knorr. The students asked a combination of technical questions about Bower’s research, and some practical questions vital

Curse of the Janjaweed
Times Online - Liaising with the Sudanese air force and army by satellite phone as villages were being shelled, the Janjaweed would then ride in on camel or horseback to finish the carnage. They d kill the men, rape the women, often in front of their families

Another step down the slippery slope of embryo screening.
Slate - Satellite imagery and Internet collaboration are revolutionizing search and rescue. Latest case: 20,000 Web users combining to of every three U.S. men doesn’t wash his hands after using public bathrooms. Percentage of Americans who claimed in a phone

Suicide casts shadow of grief over relatives
Statesville Record & Landmark - But just a few days before her mother took that overdose, Lowe said she sneaked a phone call to her mom. She was talking about committing suicide, Lowe said. I told her, you don t want to do that. What was I supposed to say, I was

Top 10 tips on overland travel
Guardian Unlimited - We had lots of equipment to enable us to stay in touch with people back home while on the road, including a laptop, mobile phone and satellite modem. Just in case you run into any problems, it is a good idea that someone else knows roughly where you

DataPath and Qualcomm Team to Offer Integrated SATCOM and Cellular
Forbes - DULUTH, Ga., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks connectivity with a deployable cellular base station to establish a local network for up to 150 simultaneous cell phone

Former Pakistani PM arrives in Islamabad after exile
Jerusalem Post - Other networks reported that phone jammers were in operation at the airport, and an hour and a half after he landed, Sharif’s fate remained unclear. The arrival of Sharif is likely to sharpen political tensions ahead of presidential and legislative

Courtesy Barry Turner
Egypt Today - The mufti has been very vocal of late in his criticism of satellite sheikhs he says mislead the public by spouting In telephone interviews with local newspapers, Al-Saadawi brushed off accusations that she had fled the negative publicity

Not-so-Veiled Complaints
Egypt Today - Is the veil the sixth pillar of Islam? Hosni asked in an interview aired on El-Mehwar satellite TV s 90 Minutes fanatic promptly issued what she declared was a fatwa permitting Saleh s killing, and death threats by email and telephone

Press Release Tips and Template
PRWeb - Top 10 Situations Where a Satellite Phone Can Save Your Life From off road adventures to active war zones, satellite phones are fast becoming a vital lifeline for more people than ever before. Here we list the Top 10 situations in which a satellite

Don’t Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
Computerworld - of money to deploy, and most users were resistant to paying dollars per minute of call time and carrying around a phone In 2000, the company was taken over by Iridium Satellite LLC, which recently said that it wants to launch new satellites and hopes

The United Nations of Iridium
Wired - The United Nations of Iridium It’s a bird, it’s a phone, it’s the world’s first pan-national corporation, able to leap geopolitical and a few lucky kids - to see the last launch in a series that would create the world’s biggest satellite

Defying naysayers, Iridium Satellite finds a business model
Computerworld - The first Iridium marketed itself as a consumer satellite telephone service, but its original phone was too bulky and its service too expensive for general adoption. And there were some service quirks consumers wouldn’t accept — for instance, the

Half a world away
News-Enterprise - Fletcher, I continue to serve as your state representative. (I even participated in a committee meeting in Frankfort last week via satellite phone while standing outside in a sandstorm.) My fellow legislators assure me that agreements have been

AccessKey IP, Inc. to Pursue European Markets
Forbes - Play” (voice, video and data) and “Quadruple Play” (voice, video, data and wireless) offerings of cable, telecom, satellite and the internet, watch Video on Demand (VOD) offerings, play video or internet-based games, listen to music, make phone calls

Market Mover
American Reporter - Extremely expensive and often restricted or off-limits satellite phones will on rare occasions garner a quick phone call. Savvy soldiers, familiar with scrounging what they need, will often scrounge a phone call or email line on a laptop from a

A pair of fossils shakes up the human family tree
International Herald Tribune - Spoor, speaking by satellite phone from a field site near Lake Turkana, said the evidence clearly contradicted previous ideas of human evolution “as one strong, single line from early to us.” The new findings, he added, support the revised

UPDATE 1-EchoStar quarterly profit rises
Reuters - The No. 2 U.S. satellite TV company behind DirecTV Group Inc (DTV.N: Quote , Profile , Research ), which also competes with cable and phone company TV providers, said net income rose to $224.2 million, or 50 cents a share, from $168.8 million, or 38

Market Spotlight: Satellite TV
Forbes - The argument was that cable’s bundled services - offered for introductory rates of about $99 - would lure customers away from phone and satellite providers who could offer only one or two of the services. Cable numbers grew in 2006, but satellite

Flying sky high
ITP.net - Inmarsat’s confidence is also spurred by what it claims are the comparatively harsh economic conditions facing two of its main competitors (Globalstar and Iridium). “We also think the current climate in the satellite phone services market will offer

Surviving in the frigid, barren and unforgiving Arctic
CNN - The camp used the now-defunct Iridium satellite phone system to communicate with the outside world. Mikhalevsky is headed back to the eastern Arctic this fall to check on a research site in the Lincoln Sea area which has been compiling data using

Some Americans say that traditional vacations aren’t worth the effort
Winston-Salem Journal - One in four of those surveyed said they felt that their bosses did not encourage them to take vacations, and one in three said they stayed connected with their office by phone or computer while on holiday. Our sense is that people are busier than

Top Cyber News 7/16
WLNS - At the top: an embedded handsfree phone. Drivers are also looking for emergency SOS functions, theft recovery, satellite radio and satellite navigation. What they’re not looking for, according to Gartner, are devices that turn a car into a high-tech

Sat-nav rival could crash and burn
Guardian Unlimited - Giove-A is a test satellite for Galileo, a multi-billion-pound European Union project to provide pilots, farmers, trawler fishermen, truck drivers, mobile phone owners, businessmen and private citizens with the means to pinpoint their positions to a

Ambitious Google not setting any limits on business deals
Computerworld Singapore - Google struck a partnership in April to sell advertising for Dish Network satellite television, and is building an taking the letters immigrants wrote to each other — from the time of the Pilgrims until the widespread use of the telephone

OmniGlobe Networks and Naskapi Imuun Partner to Provide Canadas First
TMCnet - platform which will create a local wireless network providing First Nation subscribers with cellular services that are currently available only to urban inhabitants. The local network will link via satellite to global cellular and telephone networks

Berks balloon ends record-setting flight
Reading Eagle - Padelt communicated with Hempleman-Adams via satellite phone during the trip. I m very proud of the fact that he did this flight with my balloon, Padelt said of his longtime friend. When I received word that he was down, there was certainly

UAE satellite telecom firm to launch third satellite in October
People’s Daily Online - Thuraya will sign service provider (SP) agreements with a telecom company in Australia this month to provide ground services to mobile phone subscribers via the new satellite, Al Ghafli said. The company expects to sign more SP agreements with

Canada s BCE agrees to C$34.8bn buyout
Financial Times - Besides a near-monopoly in the fixed-line phone market in Ontario and Quebec, BCE is a major player in wireless and internet services and satellite TV. It also has a minority stake in CTV, Canada s biggest privately-owned TV network and in The

Theft of IDs likely broad
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Hundreds of people may be victims of a satellite and cable television fraud and identity-theft scheme that has run at least The men would obtain contracts and information through door-to-door sales and phone solicitations to create legitimate

What’s Next: Staying Connected
Inc.com - If you demand full-on multimedia all the time, you need a satellite phone. As recently as a few years ago, medium-speed satellite data links were the privilege of those willing to lug a suitcase full of electronics, take a course in how to use the

Playboy.com Launches ‘iPlayboy’ for the Apple iPhone
MSN MoneyCentral - with the launch of “iPlayboy,” a collection of multimedia features guaranteed to turn up the heat on that cool, new phone with twelve additional Playmate photos, a complete 1-hour episode of Playboy Radio’s “The Playmate Hour” (SIRIUS Satellite

Haniyeh’s deputy talks to Noam Schalit
Jerusalem Post - Schalit appeared overcome, and said he preferred to speak with Youssef off-camera, Youssef offered him his phone number. Analyses: Listening between the lines Box-office terrorism Pawns in a Palestinian power play Earlier Tuesday, senior Hamas official

Web Radio Stations Hope Silence Speaks Volumes About Fee Hike
Washington Post - today’s protest, said webcasters, listeners and artists have hit Capitol Hill offices with half a million e-mails and phone in the House and the Senate called the Internet Radio Equality Act would lower Web broadcasters’ rates to the rates satellite

Starpulse News Blog
Starpulse.com - R&B singer Cheri Dennis has hit out at Florida police for the brutal treatment she received last week when she was taken into custody for resisting arrest. Rolling Stones rockers Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have kissed and made up after a

DirecTV, EchoStar Set Tie With Clearwire
Wall Street Journal - They also both have partnerships with large phone companies like Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc., which market satellite video services along with their phone service and Internet access. But both Verizon and AT&T are launching their own TV

Online Press Release
PRWeb - ViaTalk Satisfies Night Owls Cravings For Free Internet Phone Service Created especially for the midnight snacker, ViaTalk s new late night menu offers a feast of savings including twelve months of free unlimited VoIP phone service. - 2006-07-25

The Dangers of Modern Automotive Conveniences
Popular Mechanics - Reading in-dash maps, answering phone calls, trying to program the radio: all critical skills for the modern driver Recently, I drove a new car with satellite radio. And it kept me informed of very important facts: I m 1.3 minutes into the

Indians join Oman relief work
Chennai Online - The control room established by the Indian Embassy has been involved in receiving telephone calls from India and elsewhere. It has also established communication with families who have been rendered incommunicado due to destruction of telephone lines

Judge rules for Nome gold mine
Anchorage Daily News - few issues,” said Daniel Pinkston, a Denver-based DOJ attorney, who argued in defense of the corps’ permit by telephone about $75 million to explore and develop the Rock Creek gold deposit and the smaller, but higher-grade Big Hurrah satellite