UK Globalstar
Reseller Global Telesat Communications
Surpasses 15,000 SPOT Sales Milestone
Including 1,500 Devices to Safeguard Lone
Workers
October 22, 2019
Globalstar Europe
Satellite Services Ltd. announced that UK
specialist wireless and satellite technology
reseller, Global Telesat Communications
(GTC), a subsidiary of Orbsat Corp (OTCQB:
OSAT), has surpassed the milestone of
selling 15,000 SPOT devices. This includes
1,500 SPOT units deployed to safeguard
remote working or at-risk employees for
organisations including the UK Forestry
Commission and numerous other commercial and
non-commercial entities.
GTC’s customer base for
SPOT spans both consumer and organisational
users including security firms, utilities,
maritime operations specialists, sports
event organisers, government agencies,
professional remote workers, as well as
adventurers and other travellers.
GTC has won SPOT
contracts awarded by government and
commercial organisations including the
deployment of more than 850 SPOT Gen3’s by
the UK Forestry Commission since early 2016.
The Commission, and GTC’s other
organisational customers, use SPOT Gen3 to
improve the safety of staff working in
remote areas where alternative
communications are unreliable or
unavailable. NATO procured its SPOT Trace
devices from GTC to study ocean current
movement, using buoys, for operational
purposes.
By using satellite
communications, enabled by Globalstar’s
second-generation Low-Earth Orbit satellite
fleet, SPOT enables users to stay connected
with emergency services, colleagues, friends
and family, anywhere, even when beyond the
reach of mobile phone networks and radio
communications.
Both SPOT Gen3 and SPOT
X, the most recent addition to the SPOT
family, feature a one-touch S.O.S. button
that instantly sends the user’s GPS location
to the GEOS International Emergency Response
Coordination Centre (IERCC) over
Globalstar’s satellite network. The IERCC
then transmits details to local first
responders to dispatch help to the user’s
location.
The devices’ tracking
feature can help first responders, friends
and colleagues to locate users even if they
are unable to press the S.O.S. button during
an emergency.
Organisations which
deploy SPOT for staff safety have the option
of configuring their devices to directly
send an S.O.S. alert to in-house security
and operation centres, instantly
transmitting GPS coordinates for prompt
internal emergency handling.
“The milestones we are
celebrating today are testament to the high
quality, reach and reliability of
Globalstar’s satellite network and its SPOT
devices which enable always-on
communications and user safety,” says David
Phipps, Chief Executive Officer of Orbsat
Corp. “Now with SPOT X, and its extra
two-way communications capabilities, we
anticipate continued strong demand for SPOT
products, and significant upward migration
from SPOT Gen3 to SPOT X by both
professional and leisure users.”
SPOT X, launched in
EMENA in January 2019, offers full two-way
SMS and email as well as GPS tracking and a
one-touch S.O.S. button. It is the only
satellite messenger on the market to give
users a permanent phone number, easy
check-in function and a full, backlit QWERTY
keypad for intuitive typing. SPOT X also
offers the industry’s longest battery life
in both tracking and S.O.S. modes and is
priced competitively.
“We are extremely proud
of the ongoing expansion and growing
diversity of the SPOT user base,“ said Mark
O’Connell, Globalstar EMEA General Manager.
“To be trusted to safeguard and provide
lifeline communications to staff as they
carry out their important duties in remote
or dangerous environments is both a
responsibility and an honour. We
congratulate GTC for achieving the milestone
announced today, and we look forward to
continuing to collaborate to provide safety
and peace of mind to more people,” he added.
Since its 2007 launch,
Globalstar’s family of SPOT GPS satellite
messengers have helped to assist in over
6,800 rescues worldwide, in many of which
lives were saved.