Reston, Va.-Mobile Satellite Ventures continues to push its terrestrial-satellite wireless offering, announcing a Capitol Hill demonstration of its technology as well as plans to focus on patent licensing and enforcement efforts.
“MSV’s vision is to launch the most advanced system ever that will serve all Americans, as well as provide critical services to emergency responders,” said Alexander Good, MSV’s vice chairman and chief executive officer. “In the short term, our integrated satellite-terrestrial system will be available to ensure that public safety has communications wherever needed and that all users are connected to the latest communications technologies.”
MSV said it demonstrated its hybrid satellite-cellular technology-dubbed Ancillary Terrestrial Component-at an event in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Society of Satellite Professionals International. The system uses a modified CDMA mobile phone that also operates as a satellite phone. The company said the handsets use a terrestrial network when they are in urban areas or indoors but communicate directly with a satellite wherever the terrestrial network does not work.
Separately, MSV announced it appointed Donald Stout as the company’s new head of patent licensing and enforcement efforts. Stout is the founder and chief strategist of patent-holding company NTP Inc., which is currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.
“We are delighted that someone of Mr. Stout’s expertise and proven track record will be directing MSV’s strategic implementation, licensing and the enforcement of its intellectual property portfolio,” MSV’s Good said. “With a rapidly growing patent portfolio both domestically and internationally, Mr. Stout’s mandate is to actively and aggressively manage our fully patented ATC vision.”
