LONDON-A new 9.8 kilobits per second service, which uses the International Mobile Satellite Organization’s Inmarsat-B mobile satellite communication system, allows rapid data communications without a modem or special landline connections, said Inmarsat.
The Inmarsat-B transportable terminals provide full office communications to customers in areas without fixed telecommunications infrastructure using a satellite
“Now that the global service is available, thousands of government officials, journalists, oil and gas industry workers, peacekeeping forces and others who need immediate and reliable remote mobile data communications can benefit from 9.6 kbit/s services,” said Jonathan Elder, Inmarsat’s manager of data services.
