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I have a friend on a cruise in the Caribbean trying to use his
Globalstar sat phone for email. Looking at the sat availability for
his area he can only see a bird for about 10 or 15 minutes at one
time. He is using Vista on his laptop. When he gets a connection to
the satellite it starts the data exchange but when he looses sight of
the satellite the connection is lost and the computer crashes going to
the blue screen of death. The whole experience is quite frustrating to
say the least. Does anyone here know anything about this problem ?
should the phone be maintaining a data connection to the software and
then doing a "hand-off" to the next satellite as it comes into
view ?
Any help appreciated !


I've heard bad things about Globalstar from various sources. A relative has
a small plane, flies everywhere, and never seems to be able to use his
phone. He's switching to Iridium.

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