The Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS) consists of several satellite phone providers serving private customers. It can be compared to PLMN (wireless telephony carriers) and PSTN (traditional wire-based telephony).
As of 2008, ranges of numbers have been assigned to four GMSS carriers:
Iridium Satellite LLCGlobalstarEllipso (a non-operational service, with no satellites launched)ICO Global CommunicationsIn 1996, the ITU introduced country code +881 for direct international dialing of phones on GMSS providers. (Inmarsat had already been allocated country codes +870 through +874.) The next digit following the country code is allocated (two at a time) to a particular GMSS carrier:
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