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AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH CTIA Lee M. Oser CEO and Editor-in-Chief Jules Denton Kim Forrester Carlos Velasquez Associate Publishers Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director JoEllen Lowry Jeanie Catron Karrie Welborn Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Jonathan Schieffer Graphic Designers Caitlyn McGrath Sarah Glenn Customer Service Managers Stacy Davis Kim Stevens Show Logistics & Distribution Lynne Hilton Sarah Robinson Account Managers Enrico Cecchi European Sales Wireless World is published by Oser Communications Group ©2016 All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 www.osercommunicationsgroup.com European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy Wireless World Thursday, September 8, 2016 4 JOIN THE MISSION WITH CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS Cell Phones for Soldiers is a 12-year old national non-profit dedicated to serving troops and veterans with free communi- cation services and emergency funding. The program provides a lifeline for mili- tary members while they are overseas and for veterans who have returned home but may still be isolated from the family and community services they need to help them through the transition. Cell Phones for Soldiers is the wire- less industry's leading charitable recy- cler of electronics. Since 2004, it has recycled more than 15 million cell phones to fund its programs. Its existing partners range from Fortune 500 to local grass roots organizations. Cell Phones for Soldiers welcomes all inquiries to join the mission. With more men and women return- ing home from overseas in recent years, less airtime is provided to those abroad. However, the needs for communication solutions for veterans here in the United States have seen a real uptick. To combat this, Cell Phones for Soldiers is currently providing more than 275 thousand min- utes per month to veterans through low cost prepaid phones. "It's really important to provide domestic airtime for veterans. Right now they're being priced out of the market. A lot of these guys are making $30,000 or less," says Cell Phones for Soldiers Co- Founder Rob Bergquist. "Being able to provide domestic airtime is important. It's one way we can help men and women as they come home from serving our country." This has already been a big year for Cell Phones for Soldiers with its first Annual Golf Tournament in May. It was TO OPTIMIZE OPERATIONS IN A DOWN MARKET, COMPANIES CHOOSE IRIDIUM By Tim Last, Vice President and General Manager, Iridium ® M2M Line of Business Even though the oil and gas and energy industries have experienced a downturn over the last year, forward-thinking com- panies are continuing to invest in effi- cient operations. The need for truly glob- al, satellite-based machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions is still stronger than ever, not only for near-term cost control, but for positioning product and service offerings for the eventual recovery of the market. This is also evident in the energy sector, where large energy services com- panies are investing in technology to help them gain better visibility into the loca- tion, movement and performance of the thousands of pieces of equipment and other assets they employ around the world. As these assets are often times deployed in remote onshore and offshore locations, access to reli- able communications solutions for both person- nel and assets can be very challenging, but is a necessity. Even if business is slow, companies need con- stant access to valuable data in order to effectively track assets in the field, com- municate with remote workers and effi- ciently run business operations. In an effort to solve this asset connectivity chal- lenge on a global scale, energy companies are more frequently turning to Iridium due to the inherent advantages presented by products and services enabled by the Continued on Page 37 Continued on Page 37