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TerreStar Successfully Completes Call over TerreStar-1 with TerreStar
Handsets
First Satellite Call Ever Made Between Integrated Satellite-
Terrestrial Smartphones;
TerreStar Certifies Completion of Final FCC Milestone
RESTON, VA - July 20, 2009 – Mobile communications provider TerreStar
Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar
Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR), announced today the successful completion
of an end-to-end phone call over TerreStar-1, the world’s largest,
most advanced commercial communications satellite. The call was
completed between two of TerreStar’s quad-band GSM and tri-band WCDMA/
HSPA smartphones with integrated satellite-terrestrial voice and data
capabilities. The call not only demonstrates the power of TerreStar-1
and the TerreStar smartphone, but also showcases the flexibility of
TerreStar’s all-IP core network.
“This call shows how TerreStar is delivering a new standard in mobile
broadband network services and devices that leverage our integrated
satellite and terrestrial communications components to enable true
ubiquity and reliability – anywhere in the United States and Canada”
said Jeffrey Epstein, President of TerreStar. “From now on, TerreStar
means connected.”
“We have now certified that our network is operational and that
TerreStar-1, our handset and our core network are all performing
well,” said TerreStar CTO Dennis Matheson. “While the call was
completed quickly, it represents years of hard work and innovation by
the TerreStar team of dedicated employees and our partners. Thank you
all for your contributions to our success today.”
In-orbit testing of TerreStar-1 continues and TerreStar and its
partner, TerreStar Networks (Canada) Inc., remain on track to provide
integrated satellite and terrestrial communications components to help
solve the critical communications and business continuity challenges
faced by government, emergency responders, enterprises and rural
communities anywhere in the United States and Canada.
TerreStar today certified compliance with its final Federal
Communications Commission milestone and TerreStar Networks (Canada)
Inc. has notified Industry Canada of its compliance with its final
Industry Canada milestone.
The TerreStar network will operate in two 10-Mhz blocks of contiguous
MSS spectrum in the 2 GHz band throughout the United States and Canada
– with a spectrum footprint that covers a population of nearly 330
million.
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