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Volvo Race and Fleetbroadband High Speed Marine Satellite System
Prepare to experience the most exciting world sporting race on the water, the Volvo Ocean Race. This thrilling competition will be streaming to every TV and computer screen by way of advanced World Telecomunications Solutions from Inmarsat. Inmarsat is playing a key role in providing satellite communications for this 2011 sailing event with an audience…
International Satellite Services, Inc
International Satellite Services, Inc. (ISS) is based in Southwest Florida. Since our inception in 1995 ISS has been providing alternative, private and independent world telecommunications solutions for business and residential use throughout the globe. We represent all of the major L Band Satellite Constellations including Iridium, Inmarsat, Thuraya, and Lightsquared (MSAT). As competition continues to…
Mining with BGAN Service
The BGAN Service is the only mobile satellite solution to offer simultaneous broadband data and voice through a single transportable terminal that offers connectivity from virtually anywhere on the planet. The BGAN service is also the first functionality to offer guaranteed data rates on demand for live video streaming and videoconferencing. BGAN terminal accessories allow…
Mobile Satellite Communications - Who Are We?
CLA SatCom, LTD. (Caribbean Latin America) was founded in early 1995 for the primary purpose of promoting the business of mobile satellite communications throughout the Caribbean and Central America. At that time, the principals of the company were maintaining an effective means of communicating with family and business interests throughout North America and the rest…
Satellite Phone provides some relief in Japan
How do you spell happiness? “Satellite Phone” Still wearing a radiation detection badge on his lapel, a television correspondent recently had some very important news to convey to a very worried woman in the United States. “This is Bill Weir with ABC News”, he said. “I’m actually in northern Japan right now, and I just…
Satellite Dispatch Radio
Car accidents… childbirths… grass fires… heart attacks… sports injuries—Miami-Dade Fire Rescue deals with hundreds of such events everyday while serving some 2.1 million people spread over almost 2000 square miles in Florida. And if that activity isn’t enough to keep the department busy, when hurricanes, earth quakes, floods, volcano eruptions, or air crashes occur around…
Providing secure bandwidith via Mobile Satellite Communications
DigiGone, your “secure” solution for low bandwidth connections via mobile satellite communications. Does your Mobile Satellite Communication bandwidth require a secure solution? More and more Inmarsat BGAN Service customers are discovering the secrets of Diginonymous’ range of DigiGon solutions. Recently we spoke with George Spohn, one of the firm’s key players, to find out why…
Sig Hansen can't live without his Marine Satellite Services System
DEADLIEST CATCH Captain Sig Hansen can’t say enough good things about the Thrane & Thrane Fleetbroadband 500 marine satellite services terminal currently operational on his 126 foot crabber, the Northwestern. Risking life and limb working the treacherous and unpredictable waters of the Bearing Sea, Captain Hansen and his crew rely on the revolutionary technology afforded…
INMARSAT Services: PROUD RACE PARTNER FOR ROUND-THE-WORLD CHALLENGE
For the third time the organizers of the Volvo Ocean Round the World Race, the world’s most prestigious yacht race, have again selected Inmarsat Services to deliver essential satellite voice and data connectivity, broadcast quality HDTV and rich multi-media content necessary to relay all the action and drama to millions of fans across the globe.…
iSatPhone Pro Satellite Phone offers up to 20kbps data globally
The leading provider of worldwide mobile satellite communications services, Inmarsat, just announced the availability of a data service on the iSatPhone Pro satellite phone. This new circuit switched data enhancement will now support data rates up to 20kbps. “IsatPhone Pro is ideally suited for use as a data service,” said Drew Brandy, Director of Land…