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The company TelAstra was commissioned by Inmarsat to run an independant study of the iSatPhone Pro Satellite Phone to compare it with 2 other handheld satellite phones on the market, the Iridium 9555 and the Thuraya XT. All three phones were tested over a 2 month period in 16 different countries. This evaluation was conducted…

Many maritime companies are including “onboard internet services” in the recruitment of prospective employee’s as retention and the welfare of the crew has become a major priority for ship operators. “Younger crew will, apparently, refuse to join a ship that does not have the internet,” says Inmarsat’s head of maritime business, James Collett. So the…

Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN Service) is unique in offering world wide simultaneous mobile broadband data with voice on a truly portable device. It is also the first such device to offer “guaranteed” 256K streaming for live video and video conferencing. Based in Perth Western Australia, Haines Surveys uses gravimeters to provide a kind of…

Like hundreds of other locations throughout the world, Madagascar is concerned with ensuring future sustainable commercial fishing around it’s coastline for future generations. Madagascar operates an economic exclusion zone up to 200 nautical miles from its coastline with established quotas for different categories of fish. Monitoring teams for the island’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and…

Portable BGAN offered by Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of portable satellite internet and voice solutions, is the only mobile satellite service to offer simultaneous broadband data and voice through a single, extremely portable device. BGAN Satellite is also the first service to offer “guaranteed” data rates on demand – up to 256kbps – for…

Inmarsat has been named Satellite Services Provider of the Year in the annual Digital Studio awards during Cabsat and Satellite MENA in Dubai. The Digital Studio Awards bestowed the prize of Satellite Provider of the Year to Inmarsat earlier this year. Inmarsat’s products and services have contributed to the major growth of both the production…

The revolutionary new handheld satellite voice phone by Inmarsat, has won a maritime innovation award – just eight months after its launch. Sail Magazine, an American print and online publication for the sailboat world and long recognized as the premier sailing publication has awarded Inmarsat’s global handheld satellite voice phone its annual Pittman Electronics Innovation…

Eighteen Mexicans had been enjoying a diving holiday on a deserted coral island in the Indonesian archipelago when their chartered boat, the Sea Safari III, hit a reef in the middle of the night and began taking on water. The divers decided to abandon ship, take to their lifeboats and head for the nearby island…

Always in search of the “perfect wave”, surfer and photographer, Joel Coleman, routinely travels to the most remote corners of the earth. Of course, finding that wave is only the first step. Ultimately , recording and transmitting it for viewing by his audiences, proved to be a whole other challenge. The Australian runs a website…

For the last two years, Spain’s Albacora Group has been testing the marine satellite services system, the Fleetbroadband, on one of it’s tuna boats. Due to the success of these tests, the company has now spread this satellite technology across their entire fleet of vessels as they have come to realize how vital a role…