The Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS) consists of several satellite phone providers serving private customers. It can be compared to PLMN (wireless telephony carriers) and PSTN (traditional wire-based telephony).
As of 2008, ranges of numbers have been assigned to four GMSS carriers:
- Iridium Satellite LLC
- Globalstar
- Ellipso (a non-operational service, with no satellites launched)
- ICO Global Communications
In 1996, the ITU introduced country code +881 for direct international dialing of phones on GMSS providers. (Inmarsat had already been allocated country codes +870 through +874.) The next digit following the country code is allocated (two at a time) to a particular GMSS carrier:
Video Global Mobile Satellite System
Satellite numbers outside the GMSS country code
Inmarsat is a satellite-based communications provider, but it is primarily a maritime service and is not generally considered part of the GMSS.
Globalstar usually allocates subscribers with a local number in the country they are based rather than using their GMSS country code.
Iridium also uses an Arizona-based access number to call Iridium phones for those unwilling or unable to call the usually expensive GMSS number directly.
Thuraya has been assigned +882-16, within the +882 range for International Networks.
Maps Global Mobile Satellite System
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