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Globalstar Phones Are Lifelines For Brazilian Rescue Workers
New York, September 5, 2000 Last month, the Globalstar system supported the efforts to conduct search-and-rescue operations and to provide aid to thousands of victims of floods in Brazil, providing urgently needed communications service in areas of the country where all other telecommunications services had been knocked out, and in areas where no alternative telephone systems were available. In early August, Globalstar�s Brazilian service provider, Globalstar do Brasil, delivered sixteen Globalstar mobile satellite phones to government and search and rescue officials in the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas. These states, which had no previous telecommunications services, or had lost services due to the devastating floods and mudslides, had weathered five days of storms which killed at least 50 people and forced 120,000 to abandon their homes. These storms were the worst to hit the region in over 25 years. According to Brazilian Air Force Major Paulo Wladimir Rodrigues, who led the government�s rescue operations, Globalstar phones were the only way to reach most of the areas that were suddenly isolated when bridges and roads were destroyed by rising waters. The rescue teams used the phones to coordinate the delivery of vital medicine, food, water and clothes via military helicopters. Rodrigues added that the Globalstar phones provided portable, easy-to-use communications service that was integral to the government�s relief operations, and thanked Globalstar do Brasil for providing the phones. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Globalstar Loral SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express The latest information about the Commercial Satellite Industry
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