Jacobs spent nearly a decade in the mid-2000s at the helm of Qualcomm, the San Diego maker of semiconductors, software and services for wireless technology that created Globalstar in the early 1990s, ...

According to GlobalStar, the deal also will include minority investments in complementary businesses, including Pivotal Commware, which develops software-defined antennas that use holographic ...

And the reason why that was possible is because the way that Globalstar satellites work, when you send data out of here, it essentially bounces off the satellite back down to a huge antenna.