Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | 2004 | 2003 |2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997   Iridium Cites Favorable Trends for Mobile Satellite Service Iridium Satellite announced that it had more than 114,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2004, a 22.5% increase over its total number of subscribers at the end of 2003. The company's revenue for the full-year 2004 increased by 23.2% over total revenue for the prior year. In the general aviation market, the company surpassed a milestone in October of 2,500 aircraft using Iridium-based equipment -- roughly double the number equipped in 2003. In the maritime industry, Iridium announced four significant agreements in 2004 resulting in more than 300 ships being equipped with Iridium satellite terminals. In the defense/government sector, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) exercised an option to extend its contract for airtime on the Iridium network for mobile voice, data and paging services. The U.S. government relies on the Iridium network for many applications, including command and control, logistics and tracking systems, battlefield and weather condition data transmission, remote unattended sensor programs and man-pack soldier systems. In 2005, Iridium plans to complete the development of a new netted push-to- talk communications architecture. This architecture will provide an efficient broadcast service within a designated region for military, homeland security and commercial applications requiring netted voice and data communications. Iridium expects to make this innovative service available in Q4 2005. In the second half of 2005, Iridium will launch a new lower cost data modem for short-burst data communications. This data module will leverage the 100% global coverage of the Iridium network and will feature low latency, two- way communications, broadcast and high throughput data capabilities. http://www.iridium.com/ 23-Feb-05 Recent Satellite News DISH Network Launches Online Video Portal with Live TV 8/24/2010 Spacenet Awarded $7.5M for Broadband in Alaska & Hawaii 8/23/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 First Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite Launched Successfully 8/15/2010 Google Inks Ad Sales Deal with DIRECTV 8/11/2010 EchoStar Selects Widevine for Digital Rights Management 8/10/2010 Lockheed Martin Readies First Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite 8/10/2010 Valero Selects Spacenet for Broadband Managed Services Nationwide 8/10/2010 Inmarsat Plans Ka-band Global Mobile Broadband Service 8/6/2010 Hughes and China UnifiedNet Form Joint Venture 8/3/2010 EchoStar Plans New Data Center in Wyoming 8/3/2010 Sky Deutschland Selects Broadcom's STB Chipset 8/2/2010 Harris Acquires CapRock for $525 Million 7/30/2010 Cable&Wireless Worldwide Closes London Centre 7/30/2010 FCC Explores Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) Spectrum 7/15/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton         E-mail Newsletter Subscribe Now