GLOBALSTAR EXTENDS SATELLITE DATA SERVICE TO CENTRAL
AND SOUTH AMERICA

Venezuelan Ground Station Enhancement to Allow Globalstar to Offer Expanded
Simplex Data Coverage throughout region.

Globalstar, the world‘s most widely used handheld satellite phone and a provider of satellite voice and data services to business, today announced that it will offer simplex, or one-way, data services to its customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern portion of South America, using its Venezuelan gateway located near Caracas. Combined with the current simplex coverage offered by two Globalstar gateways in North America, this enhancement will greatly expand the area currently served by the company’s simplex data service.

The expansion is the result of a hardware upgrade to the Venezuelan ground station or gateway that is operated by Globalstar to provide satellite customers, access to the ground based public telephone and data networks. Globalstar simplex data service has already been available in the U.S and Canada since 2003, and throughout all of Europe and across the north Atlantic region since earlier this year.

The Globalstar simplex data offering is a low cost, one-way satellite data service that allows customers to use Globalstar simplex modems and integrated solutions to track mobile assets -- such as vehicles and marine vessels -- using GPS or other location-based software. Because of this, it is an ideal solution for marine and fishing vessel monitoring applications. The Globalstar simplex data service can also be used to monitor and send information from a wide array of industrial and security applications for fixed assets, such as environmental measurements, utility meter readings, or the state of various devices or instruments.

Using the Globalstar Satellite network and an approved integrated simplex modem solution, companies will be able to economically monitor their assets from virtually anywhere within the newly expanded coverage area. The data is sent back to a customer's monitoring facility via Globalstar's constellation of low-earth-orbiting satellites, so that information can be received at any time from remote installations far beyond the reach of ground-based communications systems.

“This investment, once again demonstrates our commitment to providing Globalstar customers with a low-cost simplex data option that will now be available to areas across the northern portion of South America and throughout parts of Central America, and the Caribbean,” said Jay Monroe, CEO and Chairman of Globalstar LLC. “It also re-emphasizes our commitment to providing a low cost, satellite- based data acquisition tool for industries that demand the ability to remotely monitor assets such as tractor trailers, shipping containers or infrastructure.”

“Additionally this is just the first installation of several new appliqués, that will be installed in the upcoming months, in order to provide simplex data solutions by Globalstar and Globalstar independent gateway operators around the world”, added Monroe.

Beginning in November, Globalstar de Venezuela will begin conducting extensive customer field trials of its simplex data offering, through the gateway near Caracas, with full commercial service scheduled to start later this year.

This service enhancement continues to demonstrate Globalstar’s commitment to introducing new product and pricing solutions designed to meet the dynamic requirements of the satellite voice and data marketplace.

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