Globalstar Officially Opens Twelfth Gateway.Business &High Tech Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000 Finland's Minister of Transportation and Communication Places First Official Satellite Phone Call Globalstar Northern Europe today Europe Today is a daily radio news show on the BBC World Service about public affairs throughout Europe. It is presented by Audrey Carville at 17:00 GMT every weekday. External links
The Karkkila installation becomes the twelfth gateway to initiate operations in the continuing roll-out of Globalstar service around the world. It joins existing gateways in France and Italy to provide coverage across virtually all of Europe. The new gateway will continue to be used to support friendly user trials over the next several weeks. Full commercial service from this gateway will be introduced, initially in Finland, in early April. Mr. Heinonen's inaugural call was made to Mr. Petri Leskinen and Mr. Kristian Heinila, two champion Finnish sailors who, at the time of the call, were in training off the coast of France. In speaking to the two sailors, who will be representing Finland at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Mr. Heinonen commented on the excellent voice quality of the system. Globalstar Northern Europe, which is the provider of Globalstar service in seven northern European nations, is a joint venture between Radiolinja Group of Finland and Elsacom of Italy. Radiolinja Group includes some of the leading mobile telephone services in northern Europe. Oy Radiolinja Ab, the group's Finland division, is the leading cellular service provider in Finland and was the first company in the world to offer commercial GSM cellular service. Elsacom, based in Rome, is a Finmeccanica company specializing in the provision of fixed and mobile satellite telecommunication services and will provide Globalstar service in 27 countries. The Globalstar system is designed to provide affordable satellite-based digital voice services to a broad range of subscribers and users. Globalstar will meet the needs of cellular users and global travelers who roam outside of cellular coverage areas, as well as residents of under-served markets who will use Globalstar's fixed-site phones to satisfy their needs for basic telephony. Globalstar, led by founding partner Loral Space &Communications, is a partnership of the world's leading telecommunications service providers A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. and equipment manufacturers, including co-founder Qualcomm Incorporated, Alenia, China Telecom (HK), DACOM DACOM Differential-Absorption Carbon Monoxide Monitor DACOM Diode Laser Based Differential Absorption Instrument DACOM Differential-Absorption Carbon Monoxide Measurements , DaimlerChrysler Aerospace DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989. In July 2000 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace merged with Aerospatiale-Matra and CASA to form EADS. , Elsacom (a Finmeccanica Company), Hyundai, Qualcomm Incorporated, TE.SA.M (a France Telecom/Alcatel company), Space Systems/Loral Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is the wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications. It was acquired in 1990 for $715 million by Loral Corp. from Ford Motor Company as the Space Systems Division of Ford Aerospace. , and Vodafone AirTouch. For more information, visit Globalstar's web site at www.globalstar.com. Loral Space &Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LOR LOR Letter Of Reprimand (military) LoR Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) LOR Learning Object Repository LOR Linux.Org. ) is the managing partner and is the largest equity owner of Globalstar. Loral is a high technology company that concentrates primarily on satellite manufacturing and satellite-based services, including broadcast transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. leasing and value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. , domestic and international corporate data networks, global wireless telephony telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. See also: Wireless , broadband data transmission and content services, Internet services, and international direct-to-home satellite services. For more information, visit Loral's web site at www.loral.com. |
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