Iridium Donates Satphones to ITU

Iridium Donates Satphones to ITU

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ITU and Iridium enhance telecommunication capacity for emergencies following natural disasters


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Iridium Communications has donated 25 satellite phones and batteries to the International Telecommunication Union as part of efforts to increase the organization’s emergency communications capacity for disaster response and recovery activities.


Iridium CEO Matt Desch noted that after a natural disaster, “much of the telecom infrastructure is
often damaged or destroyed, making the need for communications supported by a global, reliable satellite network crucial to the recovery work that will occur in the days and weeks to come.”


ITU said it deployed 35 satellite phones — including Iridium’s handheld satellite mobile phones — and 10 Broadband Global Area Network terminals to Nepal for information exchanges between government agencies and others helping in rescue operations after the recent earthquakes in that country.

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