Iridium launched the station in Russia
a Network of mobile satellite communications, Iridium has launched a gateway in Russia. The station works in Izhevsk – the capital of Udmurt Republic. The issue of creating a Russian station Iridium was decided in the last 15 years.
the Iridium Network was created in 1998, It consists of 66 low-orbit satellites, covering the entire territory of the country. The partner system was originally the State space scientific production center. M. V. Khrunichev, which had its own gateway.
Challenging destiny Iridium in Russia
In 2000, Iridium filed for bankruptcy and ceased its operation. After a few years the network has resumed work, however, of the 14 stations of mates located around the world, it was decided to keep only two in the United States. One of them is located in Arizona, the other in Hawaii (this station serves the main customer of Iridium – the Pentagon).
Russian station pairing ceased to be used. At the same time, Russian legislation requires that operators of equipment in Russia that would connect the matching network to SORM (System for operational-investigative activities, allows intelligence agencies to listen and talk to callers).
as a result, formally Iridium in Russia have not worked, but actually to the advantage of the system with Russia was possible, and the different dealers “in the gray” sell satellite telephony device.
the Construction of the gateway station of Iridium in Izhevsk
Since 2009, Iridium was negotiating to “legalize” its presence in Russia. In 2011, the Federal communications Commission approved a temporary scheme of Iridium in Russia with launch conditions of the Russian station mates. After some time in Russia started official sales of the contracts with Iridium.
Iridium took in partners operator competitor
For work in Russia, Iridium has created a separate “daughter” – “iridium Kommunikeyshens”. American Iridium owns it 51% of the shares, 25% – “Geyser-Telecom” (is engaged in the design of communication networks), 16% – the company “Morsviazsputnik”. Interestingly, the “Morsviazsputnik” is the Russian operator of a competing system of satellite communications – Inmarsat.
the CEO of Iridium Matt dash (Matt Desch) said CNews, that does not see in this situation of conflict of interest. “Morsviazsputnik”, he said, was in control of the billing system of the Russian segment of the Iridium.
investment in the creation of Russian plants amounted to tens of millions of dollars. The decision to build the new station was made in connection with the aforementioned station in the Center of them. Khrunichev does not meet modern requirements. In addition, the new station will be compliant with the group of new generation satellites – Iridium Next.
At the Iridium in Russia today tens of thousands of users, says Das. Now all they will be served with Russian gateway. Iridium received in Russia, own number capacity – in code “954″, it will work for new subscribers.
Employees of the Pentagon will not be available for the Russian special services
the Rest of the users of Iridium, including the previously connected on the “gray” schemes will be located on the territory of Russia in roaming. If the time spent in roaming will exceed six months, subscribers will have to register in Russia, said General Director of “iridium Kommunikeyshens” Victor Glushko.
Interestingly, the Iridium subscribers from the staff of the Pentagon – that is, American troops will continue to be served by the station in Hawaii, even while on the territory of Russia. Accordingly, the Russian special services will not be able to intercept their communications. However, dash thinks that the number of users in this category of visiting Russia, is small.
the Cost of handsets Iridium starts from p70 thousand There is also a terminal Iridium Go – it connects to modern smart phones via Wi-Fi, so the subscriber can make calls from your conventional apparatus. Its value is p60 thousand.
season tickets for the year are p21 thousand and p33 thousand It includes 200 minutes and 600 minutes respectively. Calls to Iridium phones from the regular rooms are very expensive. For example, for subscribers of Tele2, one minute of such a call will cost p270.
One of the Iridium dealers told CNews interesting detail: the price of network services in Russia is lower than in the whole world, and the Russian rates are while around the world. In this regard, the dealers in several foreign countries began to buy the Russian SIM cards for resale in their countries, said the source CNews. Glushko says that the company sees this as a problem: the users of Iridium, was in Russia, foreign traffic accounts for 2% of the total traffic.
in Addition to voice services and SMS, Iridium also offers data transmission services. However, while its speed is limited to 2.4 Kbit/s, and it can be considered sufficient only for m2m. But for the next 15 months will launch a satellite constellation, Iridium Next, which will provide transmission at speeds up to 1.4 Mbps.
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