TEN THOUSAND SATELLITE MODEMS FOR DISASTER RECOVERY ORGANIZATIONS

Globalstar, Inc., a world leader in providing mobile satellite voice and data services to business, announced today the purchase of an additional 10,000 OrbiTRAX simplex satellite tracking devices by various Federal, State and private organizations, who will activate these units in preparation for the 2006 hurricane season. The OrbiTRAX tracking devices are being delivered to support the field logistics requirements of the various public and private organizations, and will allow those customers to track and manage their dispersed assets during and after a hurricane, or any other natural or man made disaster.

The OrbiTRAX product is an integrated simplex modem and GPS tracking solution that uses the Globalstar satellite network to deliver data to Orbit One’s FELIX(TM) (Field Enhanced Logistics) web based back office mapping and logistics management system. The back office solution allows the various customer agencies to track and map the location of their fixed and mobile resources.

"We are extremely pleased by the continued growth of the Globalstar simplex data market and that our network is being utilized to help with disaster recovery efforts”, stated Jay Monroe, Chairman and CEO of Globalstar, Inc. Mr. Monroe added, “As one of our largest distributors of simplex data solutions, Orbit One, has built a reliable product and service designed to specifically serve the needs of emergency first responders and we look forward to their continued growth in this industry segment."

Orbit One CEO, President and Founder David Ronsen stated, "We mold basic capabilities and reliable technology into quick, simple and intuitive tools to serve asset logistics' recovery, maintenance and delivery needs, thereby improving the short and long term management of assets in often chaotic environments.” Mr. Ronsen added, “The Globalstar simplex service system, in combination with Orbit One's delivery, data management and hardware capabilities, has allowed us to introduce a reliable service that is well received. Better information, with connectivity established between responders' resources and their delivery systems, helps to coordinate the response effort, and serves well into the recovery phases.”

Once these units have been deployed, Globalstar will have activated over 25,000 OrbiTRAX units to the incident and emergency response communities, since it began integrating the Globalstar Simplex Data Service into its products in 2004.

Globalstar has offered simplex data in the U.S and Canada since 2003, and throughout Europe, the Middle East and across the north Atlantic region since early 2005. Globalstar also recently announced expansion of simplex data coverage into parts of South America, Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Simplex data is one of the fastest growing company segments with the number of Globalstar simplex subscribers increasing in 2005 by approximately 300%.

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