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Globalstar to expand ground infrastructure across Brazil

Globalstar to expand ground infrastructure across Brazil

Satellite communications provider Globalstar has announced the addition of eight new six-metre C-3 tracking antennas to its ground stations across Brazil, supporting its third-generation mobile satellite services across Central and South America.

For more than two decades Globalstar says it has provided mobile satellite services across Brazil via ground stations located in Manaus (above)  in the northwest of the country, Petrolina in the northeast, and Presidente Prudente in the southeast.

Each of these Globalstar-owned ground stations are being expanded to include two additional third-generation C-3 tracking antennas.

In addition to the above three locations, Globalstar leverages a fourth ground station location, working with Ascenty, a major name in Data Centres and Connectivity in Latin America and has contracted to install two more six-metre tracking antennas at Ascenty’s existing teleport in Sao Paulo.

These multiple enhancements, says Globalstar, will ensure high service quality and redundancy of essential network elements, supporting a next generation of mobile satellite connectivity, including IoT and D2D solutions. It adds that these solutions are essential across the vast regions of Brazil and South America that are not supported by terrestrial mobile networks.

The eight new antennas being installed in Brazil are part of a sweeping global expansion including up to 90 new tracking antennas supporting Globalstar’s third-generation C-3 satellite system.

L Barbee Ponder, General Counsel and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Globalstar, explains: “With Brazil, Globalstar has now announced construction projects related to its third-generation C-3 system that are ongoing at 14 different locations in eight countries on four continents – and this is just the beginning.”



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