SEOUL, Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it signed a contract with Intermediate Circular Orbit Global Communications of the United Kingdom to supply 2 million Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite terminals.
Under the terms of the contract, Samsung will be ICO’s exclusive supplier of Code Division Multiple Access, Global System for Mobile communications and Advanced Mobile Phone Service terminals. Plans call for the terminals to start being delivered in 2000.
The equipment is to be used with ICO’s planned satellite-enabled personal mobile global communications system.
The company plans to offer digital voice, data, fax, cellular, paging and global positioning services through 12 middle-earth-orbit satellites.
