Re: Satellite phone antenna mounting

Newps <nowhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote

>I had GS.  It doesn't work in the CONUS.  Period.  Had the phone for 
>three months last summer.  Not once did it ever connect with the 
>satellites and thus the network.  Not once.  GS of course knows this and 
>that's why they have the current plan where the monthly rate drops by 
>$10 every year.  The online gap finder is a joke.  GS got caught with 
>its pants down and let its sats get old.  They are starting to launch 
>new ones but the network is at least 5 years away from being functional 
>on any kind of a regular basis for duplex communications.  Simplex comm, 
>such as the SPOT beacon and text/email works great because it uses a 
>different part of the network dedicated to simplex operations.  GS is 
>hemorrhaging subscribers and has been for the last couple of years.  If 
>they can survive as a company until the new sats get up they would be 
>worth going back to, but you'd be foolish to set up service now.  All 
>this can be found with a Google search.

This is more or less what the European firms selling sat phones told
me. The players here seem to be Thuraya (.com) if you want the lowest
cost and Europe only (plus other bits e.g. Middle East, but not the
USA etc), or Iridium if you want the world.

I don't see how Globalstar can be taken seriously, with those weird
looking phones with massive antennae sticking out.

Look at the phones others offer
http://www.thuraya.com/content/thuraya-smartphone.html