Current Satellite-phone News Results

The Best Places To Hide - Forbes
if you can afford a pricey satellite phone like a Thuraya--many models run around $1,000--you're covered virtually anywhere you can see the sky. "If you've got sufficient money, there's nowhere on the planet where ...

Oil and gas platform in Gulf of Mexico catches fire - Washington Post
speaking by satellite phone from the boat.

Oil rig catches fire in gulf; leak unlikely - Washington Post
speaking by satellite phone from the boat.

Army couple find comfort in being deployed together but miss their children - St. Petersburg Times
speaking by satellite phone from Iraq recently. But Jake, who will turn 6 on Sept. 13, wanted to know what was keeping his parents away. "I think finally it sunk in that we're working and I told him that we will be ...

U.S. Aid Worker Flavia Wagner Held For 105 Days Freed In Darfur - Post Chronicle
said by satellite phone. During the last month of her kidnap ordeal, Wagner told Reuters her conditions had become desperate, sleeping under a tarpaulin in heavy rain with 20 armed men and drinking only camel's milk.

Abducted U.S. aid worker released in Darfur - msnbc.com
said by satellite phone. Russia's Foreign Ministry said the three members of the aircrew -- pilot, co-pilot and engineer -- were kidnapped in a minibus in which they were traveling by men in camouflage. "According to ...

More geeks on Mount Rainier, live from a "social backpack" - Seattle Times
The 10-pound backpack includes a satellite phone, Web cam, netbook computer and battery pack. Weather may not cooperate, but their plan was to livestream a conversation about organ transplants from Camp Muir ...

More bars in all places - Signal
When Matt Randall started his own company, a satellite-phone rental and sale company, he wanted to open a local enterprise because the Santa Clarita Valley is gateway to areas offering hiking, fishing, boating and ...

Weiner: Seminars this spring - Yale Daily News
how he filed stories using the power from a car battery and a satellite phone. If I am to pursue foreign correspondence after graduation — something not out of the question for me or many of my peers in the class ...

Embedistan: Embedding in Iraq During the Invasion and the Drawdown - New York Times Blogs
Oxford English Dictionary. At dusk one day in late March 2003, an editor got through on my satellite phone somewhere out in the desert north of Najaf, where I was embedded with the First Brigade of the ...