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Iridium® from Stratos

Iridium from Stratos is the only service that offers truly global satellite voice and data solutions with complete coverage of the earth (including oceans, airways and polar regions). The Iridium service is ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation and utilities.

Iridium 9555 handheld phones weighing less than one pound and global coverage—provided by 66 low-earth-orbiting satellites (LEO)—allow you to make and receive calls virtually anywhere in the world, needing only a clear line of sight to the sky. The Iridium constellation, which operates as a fully meshed network, is the largest commercial satellite constellation in the world. Iridium provides a complete telecommunications solution by combining voice, global paging and SMS and data service.

Iridium also offers flexible billing and flat rates for calls from anywhere to anywhere on earth. As with all Stratos services, we offer you a fully-supported International Customer Care Center, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.

Features

  • Global voice, SMS, paging services as well as voice mail and text messaging
  • Call forwarding and restriction options
  • Message notification
  • 2.4 kbps Data service - up to 9.6 kbps via the Direct Internet Service that can connect to the Internet or a corporate network from virtually anywhere in the world, allowing you to browse the web, send and receive e-mail and transfer files.
  • The Iridium Fax service: outbound and inbound fax using the Iridium data service.
  • Ship Security and alert providing cost-effective solutions for ship owners to meet the new International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements for Ship Security and Alert Systems (SSAS)
  • One phone number worldwide
  • International access key sequence (+ key)
  • Postpaid and prepaid offerings, including prepaid Crew Calling
  • Full range of accessories including different types of docking stations that interfaces with maritime, mobile and fixed antennas.

Stratos also offers Iridium OpenPort, the Iridium Broadband service for maritime with speed up to 132kbps and 3 simultaneous voice lines. More information about Iridium OpenPort you can find here.

The Stratos Advantage: Gain more control with Stratos value-added services

Stratos’ value-added services are designed to expand your capabilities and give you the business edge in your particular market

  • Stratos Dashboard™ for Iridium:
    • Instant Online Self Provisioning: Activate, deactivate and reactivate your Prepaid, Postpaid SIMs and Short burst Data devices in minutes. Stratos Dashboard gives you the means to review your contracts and installed base.
    • Credit Monitor Facilities - You can monitor, manage and limit the consumption per SIM as well as per groups of SIMs.
    • Instant reporting: You can create all kind of reports regarding your end customers Iridium usage. And conveniently, you can download everything into text and Excel.
    • Everyone can access, and benefit from Stratos Dashboard: Reduced troubleshooting: Stratos Dashboard contains multiple Access levels. You can give your end customers their own (restricted) access to Stratos Dashboard providing all kind of relevant information. This significantly reduces the required troubleshooting efforts on all levels.
  • AmosConnect™ from Stratos : the maritime standard that integrates e-mail, fax, telex and GSM text into a single messaging system offers great cost savings, works over Stratos SIM cards, and can be used over RUDICS as well
  • Stratos Traffic and Billing Explorer (StratosTaB) this application that gives you an update on your customer's usage every 24 hours. You can even use this application for (re) billing purposes.

Iridium Prepaid Services
Iridium Prepaid is a global, cost-effective communications system that eliminates the headaches of monthly bills or subscription fees while providing the worldwide reach and accessibility which users have come to expect from Iridium. In addition Stratos enables users to manage and control Iridium Prepaid services online via our unrivalled Stratos Dashboard for Iridium. Iridium Prepaid, which can be used with all Iridium equipment, is ideal for situations where there is one phone and one user.

Iridium GoChatCards, A well priced Crew Calling Solution.
Iridium GoChat™ is the name of the Iridium Crew Calling solution that has replaced the successful Iridium Crew Calling Scratch cards. With value based pricing, 24x7 Super Off Peak discounts, and larger denomination cards with progressive discounts, the Iridium GoChat service delivers even more value to the crew! There are virtual and physical GoChatCards available of 30, 45 and 60 minutes.

Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD)
Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) service is a data service that enables value-added applications to send and receive short data transactions efficiently over the Iridium satellite network using the Iridium 9522B L-Band Transceiver (LBT) or using the Iridium 9601 SBD Unit. Short Burst Data provides a new capability for vertical market applications in the Oil, Gas, Rail, Maritime, Aeronautical, and Utility industries as well as applications in the Government and Military sectors.

Restricted Countries
Iridium may not be sold in any U.S.-embargoed country. At present, the only country where Iridium is not allowed to physically register on the network is North Korea.