France Telecom’s Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in the Middle East. France Telecom Mobile Satellite subsidiaries TDCom in France and GloCall in the Netherlands achieved combined market share of 22 percent from marketing Thuraya for a year. That success prompted the unit to offer Thuraya to major clients in France and to its international distributor network.