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Network Overview
Coverage
Network Innovations’
telephone and PTT coverage stretches across all of North America, Central
America, the Caribbean, and Hawaii. Coverage is now provided by eight (8) beams on
Network
Innovations’
new satellite
:
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B0: NORTHEAST (NE)
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B1: EAST (E)
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B2: CENTRAL ( C)
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B3: WEST (W)
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B4: SOUTHWEST (SW)
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B5: ALASKA (AK)
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B6: HAWAII (HI)
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B7: SOUTHEAST (SE)
The
Network Innovations
network recognizes beam numbers 0-‐7. The launch of the new satellite
increased the number of beams of coverage from 6 to 8. However, the
Network Innovations
mobile
terminals can only recognize up to 5 beam numbers. As a result, beam numbers 0 and 5 are duplicated.
Though they are different beams, the Alaska and Southeast beams will appear on a local user’s handset
as beam 5. The same is true for the Hawaii and Northeast beams which will appear on a local user’s
handset as beam 0 (see illustration below).
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