Iridium Satellite received an outstanding report from Frost & Sullivan, an independent research and consulting firm, in an updated report, 2008 LEO Satellite Quality of Service Comparison – Gulf Coast Analysis. The report measures the reliability and accessibility of Iridium vs. Globalstar networks, which revealed calls through the Iridium system are three and one-half times more likely to be successfully connected and completed, without being dropped, than calls placed through the Globalstar network. This is a follow-up report from Satellite Telephone Quality of Service Comparison that was issued last year and was conducted in southern Florida and southern Texas during February 2007.
Iridium’s 2008 call success rate was 93 percent, while Globalstar’s was 26.7 percent. Frost & Sullivan evaluated Iridium and Globalstar calls placed over identical time periods and locations. Researchers placed more than 1,000 phone calls, using a variety of Iridium and Globalstar satellite phones from northern California and central Texas. In the second round of research, researchers placed more than 1,400 calls using a variety of Iridium and Globalstar satellite phones from southern Florida and southern Texas on the Gulf Coast—Bethesda, Maryland
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