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The MSAT-G2 just might be the most underrated, over achieving communications satellite radio on the market today. Although understating its capabilities in this writer’s opinion, “blue collar” is another term one sometimes hears used to describe the MSAT-G2, more on that later. Originally launched in the mid 1990’s when satellite communications was truly in its…

In less than 20 years, the mobile satellite communications business has evolved from a nicheMSAT G2 Satellite Radio market consisting of a very few very expensive options to today’s market, offering a wide variety of terminals supporting a near infinite range of functionality, spanning an equally confusing price point range. However, navigating the complexities of…

Just recently completed, The World Solar Challenge was held in the outback of Australia. The race began October 6th in Darwin and finished on October 13th near Adelaid. Held every two years, this solar-powered electric terrestrial vehicle competition always faces the extreme challenges. This year was no different. Challenged with providing real time sharing of…

You’re in the market for a hand held satellite telephone?  You have choices, not many, but choices nonetheless.  Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to stay within the same species of “fruit” when comparing your options… apples with apples, oranges with oranges, etc., easier said than done I know. Your sales agent…

On October 18th the island of Bohol in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. Damage is catastrophic. Communities on the island are devastated with more than 3 million people affected. ThereBGAN Hughes 9202 Satellite Internet is severe damage to thousands of homes as well as roads and other…

Wessex Water, a British utility company equips its rapid deployment emergency response teams with BGAN satellite by Inmarsat. The company currently provides water and sewage services to nearly 1.3m people across the south-west of England. Company Managers decided to upgrade their communications systems to support a rapid response in remote areas where cell phone service…

Looking to send data over your satellite phone but don’t know where to begin? Problem solved…and for less than the cost of dinner for 4 with a bottle of wine in a nice restaurant! Iridium, Inmarsat, Globalstar, Thuraya, or Lightsquared, regardless of which constellation or which portable satellite internet device you’re using, with XGATE together…

Satellite Communications Technology Complicated or… not so much? One of the most often asked questions that we get from prospective portable satellite internet and voice customers concerns the skill level required to operate the communications terminal itself. Because the technology behind the construction, launching and operation of the satellites themselves is so incredibly complex the…

Perhaps as many as 10,000 people have perished with hundreds of thousands more displaced from their homes in the Philippines as a result of Typhoon Haiyan. Named “Yolanda” by the Filipino authorities, the typhoon is considered by many to be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, storms in recorded history causing…