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- Vizada Launches Universal Card™ Prepaid Service
- First Card on Market to Provide Voice Calling, SMS & Email over Inmarsat and Iridium Mobile Satellite Terminals PARIS & OSLO, Norway & ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Vizada, the world's leading provider of global satellite communications solutions with more market share on more satellite networks than any other provider in...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- Talk to the handheld: Inmasat's entry into handheld satellite phones is one of several factors that have led to a perceived Renaissance in the handheld MSS market, but 2007 has turned out to be a rougher year than expected
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The concept of handheld satellite phones Just refuses to die. Arguably it should have been DOA nine years ago when LEOsat pioneers Iridium and Globalstar promised the world ubiquitous mobile comms anywhere on the planet, only to discover the hard way that GSM's roaming capability was enough...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Apax Partners to acquire France Telecom mobilesatellite communications.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2006-FRANCE TELECOM: Apax Partners to acquire France Telecom mobilesatellite communicationsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24072006 Paris - France Telecom has signed an agreement with Apax Partnersto sell 100 of the shares of France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications SA...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- On-board telephones: staying in touch.(Avionics Technology)
- Anymore, it seems like everything in life revolves around staying in touch. The newspapers are full of advertisements listing the various rate plans and incentives while television commercials broadcast today's hottest stars giving testimony as to why their service provider gives the most bang for the...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Death of the LEOsats
- SYNOPSIS: In a post-mortem analysis on the collapse of LEOsat operator Iridium, Telecom Asia global group editorial director Grahame Lynch writes that one of Iridium's fatal flaws was that it assumed that global mobile roaming was underdeveloped in all markets, rather than just select markets and vertical businesses--the same markets...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- 'Surfing' at sea: there are a number of ways to access the Web from the fishing grounds. The question is, what works best for you? (Boats & gear: minding the Internet).
- Surfing the World Wide Web at sea is no simple matter. It takes strength in the form of bandwidth, and not all transmission mediums have enough muscle. Every form of communication--voice, data, radio, TV, or facsimile--has an optimum mode of transmission described by its bandwidth. A narrow bandwidth...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Keeping in touch: increased data flow, voice options and quicker access are part of the latest communications equipment. (Boats & gear: self expression)
- If the driving force in real estate is location, location, location, in the development of marine communications it's refinement, refinement, refinement--and that's true both technologically and operationally. Whether you're interested in communications equipment to send messages from offshore or you're setting gear within sight of land, you're not going to...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Iridium Satellite and France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications SA partner to deliver global Satellite Communications services. (New Services).(Brief Article)
- Iridium Satellite announced a global distribution agreement with France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications, a fully owned subsidiary of France Telecom. France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications is a longstanding provider of mobile voice and data telecommunications services via Inmarsat satellites. This subsidiary is one of the ...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- The only way is up - satellite telephony - Industry Trend or Event
- Mobile satellite systems have been beset by a series of financial and technical problems, and the business case for such projects is still to be proven. But new entrants are pushing ahead with their plans, and surely things can't get any worse, can they? Spiraling development costs; greatly delayed...
- Research articles 2000-07-17
- Death of the LEOsats
- New Coke. The Ford Edsel. The Apple Newton. Now we've got another great business disaster to add to the list. Iridium. It's not every day that a 66-satellite network costing $5 billion gets trashed just months after launch. But at the risk of sounding cocky with hindsight, it was inevitable...
- Research articles 2000-04-15
- Seven Seas Communications Offers New Satellite Service Solutions To Offshore Technology Conference Participants
- HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--April 28, 1999-- When the Offshore Technology Conference OTC opens its doors on May 3rd, Seven Seas Communications will be there showing a full line of new and improved satellite telecommunications products for the oil and gas industry including Iridium, MiniPhone, Inmarsat and Oceancell AMSC. Offshore operations...
- Research articles 1999-04-28
- Satellite communications provider downlinks one-stop shopping
- Growing variety of services meets the challenge of orbital networking. The plethora of satellite communications options now available to ground-based users has induced one company to offer its customers a wide range of products and capabilities. This market-driven strategy addresses a growing trend in which satellite users...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Inmarsat braced for revamp……as problems mount for global mobile's pioneer
- Becoming a commercial operation will open up new strands of business for global satellite operator Inmarsat-but its future course is not yet written in stone. So the long wait is over. In the wake of the September 1998 decision to privatize Inmarsat, currently still an intergovernmental organization IGO, the...
- Research articles 1999-04-05
- Sri Lanka Outlaws War Zone Use Of Satellite Phones
- Iridium LLC [IRIDF] yesterday (2/1) received permission from the government of Sri Lanka to operate its global telecommunications service on the island, as long as the company excludes the country's war zones from satellite coverage. Sri Lanka's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission TRC promised Iridium a frequency license under an agreement with...
- Research articles 1999-02-02
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- SDN Global Acquired by SatCom Group Holdings Plc
- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- SDN Global ("SDN") and SatCom Group Holdings plc ("SatCom") announced today the completion of an agreement for SatCom to acquire SDN, a provider of satellite connectivity and data continuity solutions for enterprise applications. SatCom is a global reseller of airtime services and satellite systems hardware (mobile handsets...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
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