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Regular Mobile Numbers Ported To Satellite Service |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
Australian satellite communications company, Pivotel has done a deal to resell Iridium satellite services and will allow subscribers to bring across their regular Australian mobile phone numbers to the service.
The company, which also offers the Povotel Globalstar service (recently rebranded from Globalstar Australia) expects to sign up "several thousand" customers to the service in the first year.
Pivotel Group managing director Peter Bolger said Iridium service will offer low cost satellite calling and will make Pivotel athe market leader in Australian satellite calling business.
“Unlike many of our competitors, Pivotel Group is a mobile carrier and we are able to use our local infrastructure to switch the satellite calls and provide a number of very important value adds,” said Bolger. “For instance, the Pivotel Iridium service will use local mobile phone numbers so calling a Pivotel Iridium service is as easy as calling any other mobile phone which also means our customers can make simple local calls without the need for cumbersome international dialling.
“By using standard mobile phone numbers our customers can also bring across their existing mobile phone number or even their Pivotel Globalstar phone number when signing up for a Pivotel Iridium phone. Iridium executive vice president Greg Ewert congratulated Pivotel on its modifications and expressed the company’s enthusiasm to work together.
“Pivotel has been very successful for several years now with mobile and satellite services in Australia and we are pleased to bring our product portfolio of unique voice and data solution to Pivotel in support of its growing business in Australia,” he said.
“Our satellite constellation continues to operate to the highest level of reliability offering unsurpassed quality and value and we are still the only true provider of global mobile satellite solution,
The Iridium service works through a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites that communicate between each other rather than having to locate a land - base station to provide service in that area.
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