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Satellite Phones and Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina saw an unprecedented sale in satellite telephones by both
Globalstar and Iridium. Globalstar saw over 10,000 phones sold and activated in
a week, which are typically a year’s sales. Iridium also saw an unprecedented
number of sales and activations. Satellite phones from both companies are now
available again. Globalstar has had the new Sebring gateway open for the hurricane season.
Shortly afterward the Hurricane hit the Gulf coast and 10,000 new phones were
activated and a large number of the old phone are now concentrated into this
region. Globalstar encourages the use of the free Short Message Service to send
small messages, 19 characters, to the phone and save making a call, especially
during peak calling periods. The second Inmarsat-4 satellite is on launch pad. When successfully orbited,
it will provide Regional broadband Area Network (RBAN) service to the Americas.
The user terminal will provide 144 kbps service at about $5/MB beginning early
next year. More details after the launch. Developer are reminded that Iridium has restricted the IP Ports that can be
used on it internet gateway. Only the common ports for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP,
POP, Telnet, NT, IMAP3, DNS, SSH, and UDP. Please contact me for a complete
description of the ports allowed. There have been a number of false emails with addresses like info@skyhelp.net
asking you to do something. These are spammers and other bad people generating
false email addresses. Please call to verify before any taking any action |
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