Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company is a regional mobile satellite system that provides satellite telephone services to a region covering 99 countries. Thuraya offers satellite-based telephony through a dynamic mobile phone that combines satellite, GSM & GPS. Thuraya was established on April 1997 in UAE, as a private joint stock company. The shareholders of the Thuraya are twenty one prominent national telecommunications operators and investment houses. Thuraya was established to meet a demand for seamless coverage of mobile telecommunications. Its mission is to provide uninterrupted telecommunication services to a vast region inhabited by 2.3 billion people. With Thuraya, users are assured of continuous border-to-border coverage beyond boundaries of terrestrial systems and cellular networks. Thuraya covers an area spanning 99. Thuraya's footprint includes Europe, North and Central Africa, the Middle East, the CIS countries and South Asia. Its satellite is positioned in geo-synchronous orbit, located 36,000 km the equator with one spare satellite ready for deployment as back up. Its Primary Gateway, situated in Sharjah, UAE, acts as the operation centre for the mobile satellite system. Thuraya's benefits Thuraya integrates satellite, GSM and GPS all in one handset. Each handset offers, voice, data, facsimile, messaging and location determination (GPS). Thuraya's dual service enables the user to use GSM service any time in local networks, yet automatically switch on to satellite mode whenever out of local terrestrial reach. Thuraya service is available through local telecom operators. As a facilitator of advanced technology, Thuraya aims to contribute to the development of telecommunications infrastructures. Thuraya's satellite services will touch people's lives in a fundamental way, allowing them to grow closer, no matter where they are, and remain connected to their work partners and loved ones. Thuraya's target users Thuraya's services are valuable to a wide variety of users: regional roamers to international travellers, international transportation fleets to national marine operators, relief and rescue crews to workers of remote industrial sites. |
