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Company Name: Inmarsat
Booth No: A19
Stand Manager: Helen Bazzi
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Description: Inmarsat was
the world's first global mobile satellite communications
operator and is still the only one to offer a mature range
of modern communications services to maritime, land-mobile,
aeronautical and other users.
Formed as a maritime-focused intergovernmental organization
over 20 years ago, Inmarsat has been a limited company since
1999, serving a broad range of markets. Starting with a
user base of 900 ships in the early 1980s, it now supports
links for phone, fax and data communications at up to 64kbit/s
to more than 250,000 ship, vehicle, aircraft and portable
terminals. That number is growing at several thousands a
month.
Inmarsat Ltd is a subsidiary of Inmarsat Ventures Ltd. It
operates a constellation of geostationary satellites designed
to extend phone, fax and data communications all over the
world. The constellation comprises five third-generation
satellites backed up by four earlier spacecraft.
The satellites are controlled from Inmarsat's headquarters
in London, which is also home to Inmarsat Ventures as well
as the small IGO created to supervise the company's public-service
duties for the maritime community (Global Maritime Distress
and Safety System) and aviation (air traffic control communications).
Inmarsat has regional offices in Dubai, Singapore and India.
Today's Inmarsat system is used by independent service providers
to offer a range of voice and multimedia communications.
Users include ship owners and managers, journalists and
broadcasters, health and disaster-relief workers, land transport
fleet operators, airlines, airline passengers and air traffic
controllers, government workers, national emergency and
civil defence agencies, and peacekeeping forces.
The Inmarsat business strategy is to pursue a range of new
opportunities at the convergence of information technology,
telecoms and mobility while continuing to serve traditional
maritime, aeronautical, land-mobile and remote-area markets.
Keystone of the strategy is the new Inmarsat I-4 satellite
system, which from 2005 will support the Inmarsat Broadband
Global Area Network (B-GAN) - mobile data communications
at up to 432kbit/s for Internet access, mobile multimedia
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Product to be exhibited: Inmarsat
Regional BGAN
What
to see: Inmarsat
Regional BGAN
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