Inmarsat

INMARSAT, is the world's leading mobile satellite communications company offering a range of voice and data communications services to users on land, at sea or in the air. Founded in 1979, Inmarsat operates a fleet of nine satellites in geostationary orbit, and provides reliable communications services to a range of governments, aid agencies, media outlets and businesses needing to communicate in remote regions or where there is no reliable terrestrial network.

INMARSAT services use a range of portable, vehicle, ship or aircraft mounted antennas to provide services virtually anywhere in the world. These include traditional voice calls, through low-level data tracking systems, up to high-speed data services. The most recent of these provides GPRS-type services at up to 144kbit/s via an IP satellite modem the size of a notebook computer. Other services provide mobile ISDN services used by the media for live via videophone reporting on world events.

The telephone country codes for Inmarsat is:

• 871 Atlantic - East
• 872 Pacific
• 873 Indian Ocean
• 874 Atlantic - West

Historically expensive, calls via Inmarsat have now reduced to a level where they are comparable and in many cases favourable, to international roaming costs, or hotel phone calls. Newer services using IP technology feature an always on capability where the user is simply charge for the amount of data they send an receive rather than the length of time they are online. Call charges are also the same wherever in the world the service is used.

External link

• http://www.inmarsat.com/