RESTON, Va.-Comsat Personal Communications, a division of Comsat Corp., selected Giesecke & Devrient to provide Subscriber Identity Module smart cards for Comsat’s Planet 1 personal satellite telephone. Planet 1 is designed to offer global personal communications including voice, fax and data, from a portable laptop computer-sized satellite terminal.
Comsat said it chose Global System for Mobile communications technology because it offered security, encryption, personal information storage, pre-paid calling features and short message storage. The International Mobile Satellite Organizations’ satellites interface with Comsat’s earth stations.
