A satellite phone helped save 500 people in a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea, a senior executive of a UAE-based satellite phone company said at the fifth Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
One person on the migrant boat that was sinking had a Thuraya satellite phone, he had no credit but was able to call customer service, Samer Halawi, CEO of Thuraya, said.
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