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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: average joe who wrote (33940)8/6/2012 5:41:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
With SPOT instead of Iridium, you get continuous tracking [every 10 minutes] and no flat battery [lasts much longer than the 1 day of Iridium if it's turned on]. With SPOT, it's a single button push to get your message to the air charter company to come and get you. Or, a single press for an actual mayday call to emergency services. With SPOT, the GPS location is right there on their Google map after they click on the message.

Once Globalstar has the new satellites all in orbit, Globalstar's service will be much better than Iridium [other than over the poles and in some ocean areas - most of the Pacific Ocean for example]. Not many people are out on the oceans [out of coverage if they are thousands of kilometres off the coast].

The call quality of Globalstar is better than Iridium.

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