Thuraya

• Announced in 2000
• GSM900/1800
• GPS
• Recurrent connection with two satellites (support for up to 250000 Thuraya phones or analogous ones) in a geostationary orbit allows to use up to 13.750 phone channels and widens the power of these devices that gives the opportunity to use a connection above GSM networks
• SMS
• Data and fax transfer with the speed of up to 9600 B/s
• Call redirection
• Indicates an incoming call number
• Call waiting
• Call rejecting
• Auto answer

  The system is for those who use their phones everywhere. The price for the device in Europe is between 800 and 900 Euros, setting a connection will cost 36 Euros and user monthly fee is 15. Fax receiving will cost you about 5.5 Euros a month and the same price for data transfer. Every SMS will be 0.25 Euro. You can have 6 free of charge seconds. Call costs from 0.6 to 2 Euros a minute. The system is expected to come into use in the begining of 2001. There are two phone models with similar functions represented for today.

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 24 July 2002

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