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New Service Provides Tailored Market Applications And Expands Iridium’s Capabilities ARLINGTON, Va. – June 5, 2003 – Iridium Satellite LLC, provider of global satellite voice and data communications, today announced that it is launching Short Burst Data capabilities targeted at vertical market applications such as the Oil, Gas, Rail, Maritime, Aeronautical, and utility industries as well as applications in the Government and Military sectors. The Iridium Short Burst Data service is designed for applications that send and receive short data messages ranging from one to 1960 bytes in size, ideal for situations such as asset tracking, remote telemetry, or pipeline monitoring. To apply Iridium’s data capabilities to solving customer’s remote and mobile communications problems, Iridium has partnered with skilled Value Added Resellers (VARs) to integrate the required hardware, software, and SBD service that ultimately forms the complete infrastructure needed to provide the total service over the Iridium satellite system. The new short burst data capability enables wireless data applications to use the unique features of the Iridium network to send and receive data using the Iridium 9522 L-Band Transceiver (LBT). A microprocessor based application communicates with the LBT over a serial connection using enhanced AT commands. The LBT transmits and receives data messages across the Iridium satellite network utilizing inter-satellite links to reach the Iridium gateway where it communicates with the VAR’s host computer system via an e-mail interface. Short Burst Data extends the global reach of Iridium to remote and mobile data applications highlighting the unique Iridium benefits of 100% global coverage, independence of terrestrial wireless infrastructure and extremely low message delivery latency. “This new service further demonstrates the versatility of our system and our focus on expanding our services and providing applications to better suit the needs of our growing customer base” said Gino Picasso, President and CEO of Iridium Satellite LLC. “We have seen an increasing demand for this service which will open up several new markets for Iridium in addition to many areas where it will be utilized by our current customer base.” Comprised of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellites plus 14 additional in-orbit spares, the Iridium Satellite constellation delivers the only truly global voice and data service. Iridium Satellite LLC launched global voice services in March 2001 and added ubiquitous Internet connectivity in June. The company successfully launched seven additional spare satellites in 2002 to ensure the system’s long-term performance.
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