{"id":87517,"date":"2010-02-09T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/globalstar-arion-form-mss-joint-venture-in-korea\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:34:53","slug":"globalstar-arion-form-mss-joint-venture-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/globalstar-arion-form-mss-joint-venture-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalstar, Arion Form MSS Joint Venture in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-09-10] <strong>Globalstar<\/strong> signed a joint venture agreement with mobile satellite voice and data provider <strong>Arion Communication<\/strong> to form <strong>Globalstar Asia Pacific<\/strong>, the companies announced Feb. 8.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The joint venture will operate the Globalstar gateway ground station in Korea and provide Simplex and duplex mobile satellite voice and data services, including Spot Satellite GPS Messenger products and services, to customers in Korea and the surrounding maritime region. Arion will provide services while Globalstar will provide engineering and technical training and personnel support required for Globalstar Asia Pacific to operate the Korean Globalstar gateway. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The companies also confirmed that Globalstar Asia Pacific will work to acquire the existing gateway in Seoul from <strong>LG Telecom<\/strong>, which has been Globalstar\u2019s service provider in the region since 2001. The acquisition and license transfer are subject to approval by the Korea Communications Commission, which is expected in the next few weeks. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis joint venture combines Arion\u2019s expertise in delivering maritime messaging and vessel monitoring solutions with Globalstar\u2019s ability to provide high quality and affordable mobile satellite services to areas beyond the reach of terrestrial wireless communications,\u201d Globalstar CEO Peter Dalton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Satellite Voice\u2026 Again<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 1, 2010<br \/>\nIn the first quarter of 2010, AT&amp;T plans  to begin offering Terrestar s satellite voice service as part of  selected AT&amp;T wireless plans, and this may be the time that  satellite voice comes into its own. Satellite phone service does not  have a\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Globalstar Upgrades TCU for Second-Generation LEO  Constellation<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 15, 2010<br \/>\n[01-15-10] Globalstar began  installation of satellite telemetry control unit (TCU) upgrades in  preparation for the summer launch of its second-generation, 48-satellite  constellation, the company announced Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Analysis Review: Assessing 2009 Predictions into 2010<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 28, 2009<br \/>\n[12-29-09] Analysts made a wide  range of predictions this year as the satellite industry adjusted to  rapidly developing technology and emerging markets in a slow-moving  global economy. Satellite News has gathered some of this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-09-10] Globalstar signed a joint venture agreement with mobile satellite voice and data provider Arion Communication to form Globalstar Asia Pacific, the companies announced Feb. 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The joint venture will operate the Globalstar gateway ground station in Korea and provide Simplex and duplex mobile satellite voice and data services, including Spot Satellite GPS Messenger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}