Iridium Satellite Phones - True worldwide coverage

Iridium's Satellite Network is the truly global satellite voice and data system offering total global coverage. It covers every Ocean and Polar region.

It does so through the use of a network of low-Earth orbiting satellites, which provide essential connections to areas where terrestrial communications are not available or poor quality and unreliable.

Iridium's service is ideal for many different commercial and public service applications, including heavy construction, shipping and marine communicatins, mining, forestry, oil and gas and aviation, as well as defence and military usage, emergency services and NGO's.

This Personal Communication Service (PCS), or Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) system, supporting global, wireless digital communications, provides voice, messaging and data services to mobile subscribers using handheld user terminals and fixed position phones.

The Iridium System is a satellite-based, wireless communications network designed to permit voice and data transmission to and from anywhere on earth, at any time.

Iridium provides an immediate solution for those working in areas where there is no cellphone infrasructure or public landline network, or where the land lines are unreliable or of poor quality.

It also provides GPS, data tansfer, paging services and assest tracking facilities.

Eighty-six percent of the world (and all its oceans) has inadequate landline service. Iridium provides the solution with a voice and data connection across the world to any phone in the world.