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Mobile satellite services provider Globalstar on May 6 said it has managed to hold on to 105,000 subscribers for its two-way voice service despite the service degradation in the past three years caused by a problem on the company’s satellites.
These telephone customers, the company said, will form the core of Globalstar’s revenue base as it returns to full service when its second-generation satellites are launched starting late this year.
Milpitas, Calif.-based Globalstar said that even as it has struggled to maintain its base of two-way voice subscribers, it has increased its customer base for what the company calls its Simplex messaging service, which has not been affected by the problem onboard the satellites.
The Simplex customer base has more than doubled in the past two years. As of March 31, the company said it had 225,250 Simplex customers, up 3 percent from Dec. 31. Customers coming from Globalstar’s international gateway operator partners totaled 63,800 as of March 31, down 1.4 percent from Dec. 31.
Globalstar has 24 second-generation satellites under construction, with the first six to be launched in September or October aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Three more six-satellite launches are scheduled to be carried out in 2011.
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