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Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company is a regional mobile satellite system that provides satellite telephone services to a region covering 99 countries. Thuraya offers satellite-based telephony through a dynamic mobile phone that combines satellite, GSM & GPS. Thuraya was established on April 1997 in UAE, as a private joint stock company. The shareholders of the Thuraya are twenty one prominent national telecommunications operators and investment houses. Thuraya was established to meet a demand for seamless coverage of mobile telecommunications. Its mission is to provide uninterrupted telecommunication services to a vast region inhabited by 2.3 billion people. With Thuraya, users are assured of continuous border-to-border coverage beyond boundaries of terrestrial systems and cellular networks. Thuraya's footprint includes Europe, North and Central Africa, the Middle East, the CIS countries and South Asia. Its satellite is positioned in geo-synchronous orbit, located 36,000 km the equator with one spare satellite ready for deployment as back up. It’s Primary Gateway, situated in Sharjah, UAE, acts as the operation centre for the mobile satellite system. Thuraya's benefits: - Thuraya integrates satellite, GSM and GPS all in one handset. Each handset offers, voice, data, facsimile, messaging and location determination (GPS).
- Thuraya's dual service enables the user to use GSM service any time in local networks, yet automatically switch on to satellite mode whenever out of local terrestrial reach.
- Thuraya service is available through local telecom operators. As a facilitator of advanced technology, Thuraya aims to contribute to the development of telecommunications infrastructures.
- Thuraya's satellite services will touch people's lives in a fundamental way, allowing them to grow closer, no matter where they are, and remain connected to their work partners and loved ones.
- Thuraya's services are valuable to a wide variety of users: regional roamers to international travelers, international transportation fleets to national marine operators, relief and rescue crews to workers of remote industrial sites.
Coverage Area Countries within Thuraya’s extensive coverage area Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bhutan
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
France
Finland
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Hungary
India
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jersey
Jordan
Kenya
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrghyzstan
Latvia | Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova
Monaco
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
Netherlands
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Russia
San Marino | San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Slovenia
Somalia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Zambia |
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