ORBCOMM Nearly Doubles Billable Subscriber Communicators In 2006

ORBCOMM reports that it ended 2006 with about 225,000 billable subscriber communicators on its data communications system, a 99% increase over the Company's subscriber communicator base of 113,000 at the end of…

By Space War Editorial Team · Editorial process

Published January 7, 2007

ORBCOMM added approximately 112,000 billable subscriber communicators for the full-year 2006 and approximately 26,000 billable subscriber communicators in the fourth quarter of 2006.

The number of fourth-quarter subscriber communicator additions is greater than the range of 19,000 – 25,000 previously forecast by the company.

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