Who Would Need a Fixed Site Satellite Phone? – Globalcom

Who Would Need a Fixed Site Satellite Phone?

A Globalstar satellite phone is designed to be used on a building, vehicle, or boat. Basically anywhere access to satellite phone service is required indoors. When fixed site units where first introduced they where primarily used for customers needing a unit for a remote business location or rural residence where cellular and landline service was not available. Recently due to terrorist and hurricane threats organizations are preparing for telephone disruption by installing fixed site units on all their key properties of their organization. These originations include hospitals; corporate hotel chains, government agencies, as well as numerous small are large businesses. The Globalstar fixed site satellite phone is the most popular unit used on the market as fixed emergency backup communication. It does not use the local telephone infrastructure to operate so in the event the local telephone infrastructure is disrupted the Globalstar unit is fully functional. The Globalstar fixed site unit includes a U.S. phone number allowing anyone to easily call the unit from outside the effected area. The phone would be able to call any landline or cellular system outside the effected area. Calls from Globalstar phone to Globalstar phone would be accomplished through the 48 satellite constellation and the Globalstar gateways. The Globalstar satellite phone is the least expensive and most reliable fixed emergency communication solution available with airtime as low as 14 cents per minute fixed site unit can be purchased for less then $600.00.

How does it work indoors?

All the Globalstar fixed site units include an external antenna that must be mounted with at least an 80% view of the sky. 100% view of the sky would be best. Standard GSP-2900 or FAU-200 fixed site units use a power cable and CAT 5 phone cable unit from the outside antenna unit to the power supply and grounded junction box provided. When using CAT 5 cable as your phone cable you would be able to run a phone line up to one mile. From the junction box you can either tie “off the shelf analog” desktop phones or cordless phones just like you use at home. An organization with a PBX phone system can tie a line off the junction box to the analog side of their PBX system allowing satellite phone communication through their phone network. The GSP-2900 unit can handle up to five extensions and it has the capability of optional fax and data communication with addition hardware. The FAU-200 will handle up to three extensions and is a voice only unit with no data or fax capabilities. The fixed site unit provides the dial tone to the analog circuit or analog phone. Once installed the unit works like you home phone you simply dial 1 + area code + phone number + #. No special training is required when operating the unit. The Globalstar phone is the utmost in emergency backup communication and is a valuable asset to any organization’s emergency management plan.