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ORBCOMM Appoints Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing

FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that Brian Bell has joined ORBCOMM as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Mr. Bell will focus his efforts on all aspects of ORBCOMM’s selling processes, including current accounts, developing new accounts and leveraging the sales and network infrastructure within ORBCOMM to develop new business opportunities.

Brian Bell has 19 years of business development and sales leadership in the Telecommunications Services industries with leading global companies such as British Telecom (BT), Verizon, IBM, and MCI. Most recently, Mr. Bell worked at BT and was responsible for developing and managing BT’s Global Partner relationships in North America. Prior to BT, Mr. Bell spent 10 years with MCI (now known as Verizon Business) and 3 years with IBM in senior management roles that included developing large account sales teams, global alliance strategies and channel sales organizations. Through these experiences, Mr. Bell has developed an extensive network of relationships with major corporations around the world, which provide him a unique perspective on the convergence of information technology, communications and global vertical industries.

Mr. Bell is graduate of the University of Scranton and a MBA recipient from the University of Pittsburgh.

About ORBCOMM Inc.

ORBCOMM is a leading global satellite data communications company, focused on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Its customers include Caterpillar Inc., Doosan Infracore America, General Electric, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Komatsu Ltd., Manitowoc Crane Companies, Inc., and Volvo Construction Equipment among other industry leaders. By means of a global network of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites and accompanying ground infrastructure, ORBCOMM’s low-cost and reliable two-way data communications products and services track, monitor and control mobile and fixed assets in four core markets: commercial transportation; heavy equipment; industrial fixed assets; and marine/homeland security. The Company's products are installed on trucks, containers, marine vessels, locomotives, backhoes, pipelines, oil wells, utility meters, storage tanks and other assets. ORBCOMM is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and has a network control center in Dulles, Virginia. For more information, visit www.orbcomm.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally relate to our plans, objectives and expectations for future events and include statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, intentions, assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements, including those concerning the Company’s expectations, are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the results, projected, expected or implied by the forward-looking statements, some of which are beyond the Company’s control, that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: the impact of global recession and continued worldwide credit and capital constraints; substantial losses we have incurred and expect to continue to incur; demand for and market acceptance of our products and services and the applications developed by our resellers; loss or decline or slowdown in the growth in business from the Asset Intelligence division of General Electric Company (“GE” or “General Electric” or “GEAI”), other value-added resellers or VARs and international value-added resellers or IVARs; loss or decline or slowdown in growth in business of any of the specific industry sectors the Company serves, such as transportation, heavy equipment, fixed assets and maritime; litigation proceedings; technological changes, pricing pressures and other competitive factors; the inability of our international resellers to develop markets outside the United States; market acceptance and success of our AIS business; the in-orbit satellite failure of the Coast Guard demonstration or the quick-launch satellites, satellite launch and construction delays and cost overruns and in-orbit satellite failures or reduced performance; the failure of our system or reductions in levels of service due to technological malfunctions or deficiencies or other events; our inability to renew or expand our satellite constellation; political, legal regulatory, government administrative and economic conditions and developments in the United States and other countries and territories in which we operate; and changes in our business strategy; and the other risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. For more detail on these and other risks, please see our “Risk Factors” section in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Contacts

Investor Inquiries:
ORBCOMM Inc.
Lucas Binder, 703-433-6505
VP, Business Development and Investor Relations
binder.lucas@orbcomm.com
or
Media Inquiries:
The Abernathy MacGregor Group
Jennifer Lattif, 212-371-5999
Senior Account Executive
jcl@abmac.com

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