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Global Sat Phone Service Awaits Launch
News Satellite communications company Inmarsat has taken the first steps towards building a worldwide handheld satellite phone service. It plans to launch satellite phone services in Asia before the end of this year and has confirmed that a worldwide...
[September 4, 2006, 16:10]
Iridium Sets Up Shop In Iraq
News Satellite-phone company Iridium said on Monday it has been granted the right to sell its services in Iraq, where conventional telephone services have been severely damaged as a result of the war. Iridium rival Globalstar has also offered satellite...
[July 22, 2003, 9:17]
Text Messages Go Via Satellite
News Iridium Satellite, a provider of satellite phone services, added another data-oriented offering to its quiver on Monday by launching short text messaging. By next month, however, users of the company's SMS (Short Message Service) service will be...
[August 5, 2003, 9:09]
Jumping From Satellite To Mobile And Back
News London-based Inmarsat's Regional BGAN service, announced Tuesday, is the second to merge satellite and mobile phone networks. When subscribers want to jump from the satellite network to a mobile setup, they simply remove the subscriber identity...
[November 21, 2002, 9:20]
Global Satellite Broadband Network On Track For 2004
News Inmarsat, which already operates a satellite mobile phone network that covers most of the globe, plans to launch the high-speed service by 2004. Its current satellite-based mobile phone network has users in over 170 countries.
[September 28, 2001, 14:36]
Inmarsat Prepares To Enter Mobile Market
News Sukawaty said that, by 2010, Inmarsat expects to have 10 percent of the mobile satellite-phone handset market, having shifting around 90,000 devices. Satellite company Inmarsat is becoming "more like a mobile operator" with the imminent launch of...
[June 7, 2007, 16:26]
Mobile Phones On A Mission To The Moon
News The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after 2012, will test a prototype version of the satellite phone network, similar to the Inmarsat network on Earth. Director of space science at the BNSC, David Parker, said the early lunar...
[February 20, 2008, 9:16]
New Tech Changes The Face Of War Reporting
News Journalists download video to their laptop, run it through the LNG software and then connect the laptop to a satellite phone to transmit files. The system's main component is software that can turn digital video into highly compressed files...
[March 21, 2003, 9:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now that it's being bankrolled by the US State Department -- and we know what they want a satellite phone system for -- it seems to be thriving. This isn't the first time the US spooks have let third parties use government-funded satellite...
[February 18, 2002, 9:25]
Satellite Comms May 'connect The Unconnected'
News Satellite technology has been in the spotlight recently following reports that Nasa is developing a satellite-based system to put a mobile-phone network on the moon. And satellite communications company Inmarsat has a commercial satellite mobile...
[February 29, 2008, 7:45]
Wireless High Speed Access For Everyone?
News The company will compete with services including DirecPC, from Hughes Network Services, which delivers fast Internet speeds downstream but requires a phone connection for the user to send data to the Internet.iSky will be a true two-way wireless...
[January 17, 2000, 6:05]
Wireless High-speed Access For Everyone?
News The company will compete with services including DirecPC, from Hughes Network Services, which delivers fast Internet speeds downstream but requires a phone connection for the user to send data to the Internet.iSky will be a true two-way wireless...
[January 18, 2000, 6:05]
Photos: Toshiba Launches World's Lightest Laptop
News During the four-day crossing, which should cover some 3,425km, the R500 will be Hempleman-Adams' communications centre and provide weather and route information via an Iridium satellite phone to his base in the UK.
[June 22, 2007, 10:27]
Nine-year Iridium Bankruptcy Saga Over For Motorola
News A judge has finally ruled that Motorola has nothing to pay over the bankruptcy of its Iridium satellite venture in 1999, described as the biggest project failure in history. The satellites are still in use, with current owner, Iridium Satellite...
[May 23, 2008, 15:49]
BT To Test Low-cost Satellite Broadband
News BT is planning to trial a satellite-based service that will give rural computer users Internet access at speeds many times faster than by dial-up, though only half the speed of an ADSL connection. There is also a £400 fee to cover the cost of...
[April 15, 2002, 13:53]
For Arthur C Clarke: Out Of The Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.
Blog With easy access to the center by satellite-relayed phone calls from any spot on earth and with computers programmed to do their tedious reference hunting for them, researchers will save countless man-hours as they make use of all the recorded...
[March 19, 2008, 0:39]
Wi-Fi Trains Are Steaming Down The Track
News This will provide a broadband connection, linking via mobile phone base stations or a satellite to an Internet gateway. When trains enter tunnels, though, neither mobile networks nor satellite will be within reach.
[August 20, 2004, 14:40]
Intel: Wi-Fi Could Have Emergency Role
News It works well in rural areas but suffers in cities, where a satellite signal gets lost among the steel and concrete buildings. Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are using assisted GPS (Global Positioning System), a version of the satellite...
[September 12, 2002, 14:34]
Wi-Fi: Coming Soon On Board US Planes?
News Formed in 1991, the company already sells satellite-based voice and data services to the general aviation sector, primarily the corporate jet set. Those satellite-dependent offerings so far are available only on longer international flights...
[June 6, 2006, 11:05]
Telcos Staring Into The VoIP Chasm
News Cable's voice foray not only represents an incursion into the Bells' territory, it's also a defensive move against competition from satellite television. In the 1990s, the cable giants invested an estimated $75bn to $80bn to upgrade their networks...
[March 4, 2005, 10:55]
