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{{Infobox company
| name=Global Village Communication Inc.
| logo=Global Village Communication logo.svg
| founded={{start date and age|1989|06}} in Mountain View, California, United States<ref name=cw>{{cite journal | last=Brown | first=Bob | date=June 29, 1992 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35 | title=Start-up secures funds and plots Apple-linked future | journal=Network World | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=9 | issue=26 | page=35 | via=Google Books}}</ref>
| defunct={{end date and age|2000}}
| fate=Acquired by [[Company:Boca Research|Boca Research]] in 1998; Global Village division sold to Zoom Telephonics in 2000 and dissolved
| num_employees=65 (1992)<ref name=cw />
| type=Public<ref name=cw />
| industry=Telecommunications
| products=Modems
}} 
'''Global Village Communication Inc.''' was a leading manufacturer of easy-to-use fax modems and other telecommunications products for [[Company:Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[Engineering:Macintosh|Macintosh]] platform.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Bardes | first=David | date=December 1997 | url=https://archive.org/details/MacUser9710October1997/page/n63/ | title=PowerBook PC Card Modems | journal=MacUser | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=13 | issue=10 | pages=62–63 | via=the Internet Archive}}</ref> It was one of the few manufacturers to support the Mac's [[RS-422]] serial ports without requiring an adapter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kudrna |first=Joe |url=http://web.wt.net/~kikuko/PB500.html |title=The PowerBook 500 Series Shrine |access-date=January 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718061807/http://web.wt.net/~kikuko/PB500.html |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Major product lines included the TelePort series of high-speed desktop [[Dial-up Internet access|dial-up]] modems,<ref>{{cite journal | last=Saffo | first=Paul | date=July 27, 1990 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/199370834/ | title=Worlds in Collision | journal=Personal Computing | publisher=VNU Business Information Services | volume=14 | issue=7 | pages=53–55 | via=ProQuest}}</ref> and the PowerPort series of internal PowerBook modems,<ref>{{cite journal | last=Waters | first=Crystal | date=April 1992 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/200717945/ | title=Faxing Power—It's in the Cards | journal=Home Office Computing | publisher=Scholastic Inc. | volume=10 | issue=4 | pages=53–58 | via=ProQuest}}</ref> as well as a series of modems that connected to the Mac's [[Apple Desktop Bus|ADB port]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Wylie | first=Margie | date=April 23, 1990 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 | title=Mac ADB Modem Sends Faxes, Tracks Phone Calls | journal=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=12 | issue=17 | page=28 | via=Google Books}}</ref> Many of its products were bundled with the Macintosh Performa series of computers,<ref>{{cite book | last=Lee | first=Lisa | date=1995 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VdH1imEpF0EC | title=''MacWeek'' Upgrading and Repairing Your Mac | publisher=Hayden Books | page=26 | isbn=9781568302492 | via=Google Books}}</ref> and it was the manufacturer for the internal modem in the PowerBook 500 series.<ref>{{cite book | last=Heid | first=Jim | date=1995 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9v3SvcyU7UC | title=''Macworld'' New Complete Mac Handbook | publisher=IDG Books Worldwide | page=768 | isbn=9781568844848 | via=Google Books}}</ref>

The company also produced the OneWorld [[Fax server|fax server]] and the GlobalFax [[Engineering:Fax|fax]] software for Macintosh computers, which it bundled with its hardware.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Anbinder|first=Mark H.|url=https://tidbits.com/article/1957|title = Duo Owners Get Modem Choice|date = June 27, 1994|work=TidBITS|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824134438/https://tidbits.com/article/1957|archivedate=August 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Anbinder|first=Mark H.|url=https://tidbits.com/article/1910|title = The PowerPort/Gold|date = July 25, 1994|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824134858/https://tidbits.com/article/1910|work=TidBITS|archivedate=August 24, 2017}}</ref>
 
Amid a sharp decline in Macintosh sales in the late 1990s,<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Staff writer | date=March 31, 1998 | url=https://www.wired.com/1998/03/global-village-hangs-up-its-modems/ | title=Global Village Hangs Up Its Modems | magazine=Wired | publisher=Condé Nast | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004062850/https://www.wired.com/1998/03/global-village-hangs-up-its-modems/ | archivedate=October 4, 2022}}</ref> Global Village sold itself to [[Company:Boca Research|Boca Research]] in June 1998.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=June 19, 1998 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/293597284/ | title=Boca Research finalizes acquisition | journal=Miami Herald | publisher=Miami Herald Publishing | page=C1 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004062411/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/642252145/ | archivedate=October 4, 2022}}</ref> Boca Research in turn sold the Global Village division to Zoom Telephonics in 2000.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Pounds | first=Stephen | date=August 2, 2000 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/326698343/ | title=Boca Research Sells Last Modem Arm | journal=The Palm Beach Post | page=10B | via=ProQuest}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981212025300/http://www.globalvillage.com/|title=Official website|date=December 12, 1998}}

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