TS2
Wireless internet in Iraq and Afghanistan. TS2 offers broadband access to the internet in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure. The main medium of transmission is a broadband two-way satellite transfer system which provides good access to the internet in even the least accessible areas.

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company
Thuraya offers cost-effective satellite-based mobile telephone services to nearly one third of the globe. Thuraya's US1 billion regional mobile telecommunications via satellite (GMPCS) system will help meet the need for affordable, high-quality mobile phone services to urban hubs as well as remote communities.Through partnership with leading national telecom and mobile communications companies, Thuraya provides blanket-to-blanket coverage to more than 100 countries in Europe, the Middle East, North and Central Africa, the CIS countries and South Asia a landmass inhabited by an estimated 2.3 billion people.Subscribers can access Thuraya's mobile satellite system through service providers, who are either be national GSM network companies or local telecom operators. Thuraya in fact, complements national GSM networks, allowing subscribers to remain connected to their national mobile networks, and to access Thuraya's system whenever their preferred national network is out of reach.

Inmarsat
Inmarsat was the world's first global mobile satellite communications operator and is still the only one to offer a mature range of modern communications services to maritime, land-mobile, aeronautical and other users. Formed as a maritime-focused intergovernmental organization over 20 years ago, Inmarsat has been a limited company since 1999, serving a broad range of markets. Starting with a user base of 900 ships in the early 1980s, it now supports links for phone, fax and data communications at up to 64kbit/s to more than 250,000 ship, vehicle, aircraft and portable terminals. That number is growing at several thousands a month.

Iridium Satellite LLC
The Iridium Satellite System is the only provider of truly global, truly mobile satellite voice and data solutions with complete coverage of the Earth (including oceans, airways and Polar regions). Through a constellation of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellites operated by Boeing, Iridium delivers essential communications services to and from remote areas where terrestrial communications are not available. The service is ideally suited for industrial applications such as heavy construction, defense/military, emergency services, maritime, mining, forestry, oil and gas and aviation. Iridium currently provides services to the United States Department of Defense and launched commercial service in March 2001.

BCE, Inc.
BCE, Inc. is a Canadian communications company. With 24 million residential and business customer connections, BCE provides wireline, wireless, data, Internet and satellite entertainment services, principally under the Bell brand. The Company's activities are conducted through Bell Canada (Canadian connectivity), Bell Globemedia (content), Teleglobe (global connectivity), BCE Emergis (commerce) and BCE Ventures (other BCE investments). In May 2002, Teleglobe Inc. filed protection from creditors in a Toronto court under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Canadian equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In addition, its United States subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.