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Iridium provides ITU global communications services for disaster management.(CONTRACTS)

Wireless Satellite and Broadcasting Newsletter, December, 2007

As a global provider of emergency communications, Iridium Satellite announced that it is contributing equipment and airtime services to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for its worldwide disastermanagement program.

"In the last several years, Hurricane Katrina and the southeast Asia tsunami taught us that, in emergency response missions, the availability of rapid communications has the power to diminish loss of life in some of the most needy and desperate situations on earth," said Matt Desch, chairman and CEO of Iridium Satellite. "Through this agreement, ITU will provide first responders with reliable Iridium voice and data services so that they can more effectively help a greater number of people in the early days of an emergency. As a...

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