Outside lines, through a satellite phone, have at least been functional--although most computer systems are down.
Through satellite phone connection you can connect any Wi-Fi appliance, smartphone or computer directly to Internet.
This flight is intended to put in orbit six satellites for the Globalstar satellite phone company.
The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar.
Over a crackly satellite phone connection today, Prof Siegert managed a laugh at the timing.
IRIDIUM'S FALLING ORBIT has caused some people to question the whole satellite phone industry.
The 10-passenger plane has a full-sized couch, kitchen, CD and DVD players, satellite phone and fax machine.
The contents of his carry-on are heavy on electronic gadgets, including an iPod, iPad and satellite phone.
There are no land lines and now the city is trying to hook up a satellite phone service.
You pick up your satellite phone, call your credit card company and order a private jet to come rescue you.
Carroll's boats are crammed with electronic gear, from satellite phone systems to stereos that can be controlled from each stateroom.
The company now offers its satellite phone service as a transparent backup to cellular coverage through its partnerships with cellular providers.
At present, the video satellite phone of choice is called Talking Head.
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Bowers reported that her husband said he was calling from a satellite phone and was allowed one call, according to another U.S. official.
He had the use of a satellite phone paid for by the federation so it could contact him while on holiday, the report said.
Without looking away, she then punches a button to activate a satellite phone and calls in the whale's coordinates to a worker on the ground.
Again we buzzed the attendant, who returned with a satellite phone.
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Just ask Motorola, whose Iridium satellite phone network is in bankruptcy.
"I think there are a lot of people who have arrived here who just want to give something back from their travels, " he says via satellite phone.
And if you can think of anything you want us to contact either by Internet or by phone, or if you want to (inaudible) yourself, I will bring a satellite phone...
From his boat, Ridley wrote a daily blog via a solar-powered satellite phone, describing his near collision with a container ship, battles with 20-foot waves and cravings for gin and tonics.
Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan.
"I am deeply disappointed that the governor has decided to abandon the state and her constituents before her term has concluded, " the Republican said via satellite phone from interior Alaska, her office said.
McCaw maintains that the newly merged entity, to be known as ICO-Teledesic Global, will be a major global satellite phone company, though the firm will not roll out service until at least 2003.
Mr. Sures has three phones: an iPhone 4s, a BlackBerry Bold and a satellite phone kept in case of emergency like the time he was at the Great Wall of China and couldn't get cellular service.
Chapman's father, Wilbur -- retired from the Air Force after 21 years -- said his son called them Christmas morning on a satellite phone, saying he was sorry not to be with his wife and children.
"Constantly we are monitoring weather forecasts to keep in line with the sun, plotting our route, examining wind, wave and current predictions, communicating with other vessels on the satellite phone, updating our blog and logging our positions, " he said.
Teledesic Chairman Craig McCaw had expressed interest in buying the ailing Iridium just hours before it filed for Chapter 11 back in March, but he decided instead to sink his company's money into another bankrupt satellite phone provider, ICO.
To be told by T-Mobile that even if there is some weird glitch in the satellite phone system instituted by the cruise line, that my problem is with THE OTHER CELL-PHONE COMPANY and not T-Mobile, is the height of arrogance and shoddy treatment of their customers.
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