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Service Provider Globaltouch West Africa to Launch SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger and Simplex Asset-Tracking Services

Milpitas, CA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and consumers, today announced it has installed a simplex data applique at its new gateway ground station in Nigeria. The applique installation completes construction of the gateway which will provide Globalstar satellite coverage to Nigeria, the surrounding portions of Western and Central Africa, as well as parts of the coastal Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea maritime region. Globalstar independent service provider Globaltouch (West Africa) Limited (GWAL) based in Lagos, Nigeria will operate the gateway located in Kaduna. Globalstar owns a 30 percent equity stake in the new service provider operation.

Beginning this week, GWAL expects to initially offer Globalstar Simplex data solutions for a variety of logistics, supply chain management, government asset tracking applications plus SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger™ tracking and messaging products and services for both enterprise and consumer applications. GWAL plans to offer Globalstar's entire suite of current and next-generation advanced satellite voice and duplex-data solutions following the launch of the Globalstar second-generation constellation which is expected to begin next year. With the new gateway Globalstar and GWAL provide expanded continuous satellite coverage from Europe southward to most of Angola, west to the Atlantic coast maritime region and east to Sudan.

"We are very pleased to be working with our new Nigeria partner Globaltouch West Africa, as we launch coverage and once again broaden the market for our high quality Simplex data M2M enterprise solutions and our award-winning SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger products," said Marty Neilsen, Vice President, New Business Ventures, Globalstar, Inc. "We expect this oil-rich and heavily populated nation plus the surrounding region to be highly suited for our unique mix of enterprise and consumer mobile satellite solutions. The completion of this gateway is a testament to our partnership with Globaltouch and it also further demonstrates our international commitment to expand the geographic territory of where we market all of our high value products and services."

Engr. I.A. Mohammed, Managing Director of Globaltouch, further stated, "Globaltouch is excited to be bringing Globalstar's satellite services to Nigeria and the surrounding countries. We are proud and honored to have Globalstar, Inc., with its global experience, as a partner in this venture. Globaltouch will have at its disposal Globalstar's immense experience and reputation as a satellite service provider and this will be utilized to successfully deploy service in Nigeria."

The Simplex data applique installed at the new Nigeria gateway is used to provide Globalstar Simplex data services. Globalstar's Simplex offering is a low cost, one-way satellite data service that provides personal tracking and messaging solutions for commercial and recreational customers using products such as the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger. Customers can also use Simplex data satellite modems and integrated back office management solutions to track mobile assets -- such as vehicles, trailers, cargo containers and maritime vessels, using GPS or other location-based software. Simplex data service can also be used for a wide variety of industrial and security applications to monitor and send information from fixed assets, such as environmental measuring instruments, utility meters, or report the state of various mobile sensor devices and their locations.

About Globalstar, Inc.
With over 350,000 subscribers, Globalstar is the world's largest provider of mobile satellite voice and data services. Globalstar offers these services to commercial and recreational users in more than 120 countries around the world. The Company's products include mobile and fixed satellite telephones, simplex and duplex satellite data modems and flexible service packages. Many land based and maritime industries benefit from Globalstar with increased productivity from remote areas beyond cellular and landline service. Global customer segments include: oil and gas, government, mining, forestry, commercial fishing, utilities, military, transportation, heavy construction, emergency preparedness, and business continuity as well as individual recreational users. Globalstar data solutions are ideal for various asset and personal tracking, data monitoring and SCADA applications.

For more information regarding Globalstar, please visit Globalstar's web site at www.globalstar.com

About Globaltouch (West Africa) Limited
Globaltouch(West Africa) Limited (GWAL) is a Nigeria company licensed by the Nigerian Communication /commission (NCC) to offer Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) in partnership with Globalstar Inc.

Promoted by a group of private Nigerian investors, Globaltouch is poised to become a market described by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as the fastest growing market in the world Globaltouch will offer mobile and fixed satellite telephone services, simplex and duplex data modems flexible service packages. Our primary goal is to provide reliable, cost effective communications for organizations and people no matter where they are located in the region. Globaltouch will provide communications services in remote areas where there are little or no cellular services today

In the future you may access further information by visiting our website at www.globaltouchwa.com

Safe Harbor Language for Globalstar Releases

This press release contains certain statements such as, "GWAL expects to initially offer Globalstar Simplex data solutions for a variety of logistics, supply chain management, government asset tracking applications plus SPOT Satellite GPS MessengerTM consumer retail products and services," that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, including demand for our products and services, including commercial acceptance of our new Simplex products, including the SPOT Satellite Messenger, and the ability to retain and migrate our two-way communications services subscribers to our second-generation constellation when it is deployed; problems relating to the construction, launch or in-orbit performance of our existing and future satellites; including the effects of the degrading ability of our first-generation satellite constellation to support two-way communication; problems relating to the ground-based facilities operated by us or by independent gateway operators; our ability to attract sufficient additional funding to meet our future capital requirements including deployment of our second-generation constellation; competition and its competitiveness vis-a-vis other providers of satellite and ground-based communications products and services; the pace and effects of industry consolidation; the continued availability of launch insurance on commercially reasonable terms, and the effects of any insurance exclusions; changes in technology; our ability to continue to attract and retain qualified personnel; worldwide economic, geopolitical and business conditions and risks associated with doing business on a global basis; and legal, regulatory, and tax developments, including changes in domestic and international government regulation.

Any forward-looking statements made in this press release speak as of the date made and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results or developments may differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, and we undertake no obligation to update any such statements. Additional information on factors that could influence our financial results is included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

SOURCE: Globalstar, Inc.

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