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SATCOM

SingTel Unveils New Services

At Boat Asia '98

Singapore Telecom (SingTel) was scheduled to introduce its latest Inmarsat Marine satellite communications services - the InTouch Card,

MPLUS Marine Satellite Phone and Inmarsat-

C/CPLUS — at Boat Asia '98. These services are designed for small and private ship owners who rely on radio and cellular phone services for communications to and from vessels. By using the latest technology, these new satellite services reportedly offer enhanced security by incorporating encryption of information trans- mitted over the satellite link.

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MTN Provides Telecommunications

Service To Princess Cruises

ICG Satellite Services, Inc. subsidiary

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Princess Cruises to provide the communications for the cruise line's fleet, including the new Grand Princess, the largest cruise ship in the world. Grand Princess fea- tures MTN C-Band communications equip- ment, as well as live video broadcast capability. "We chose to expand our relationship with

MTN because .... Grand Princess requires advanced communications technology. The

MTN system meets both our technological requirements today, as well as our anticipated requirements as we grow and demand more voice, data and video broadcast capabilities," said Rick James, senior vice president of Sales and Corporate Relations, Princess Cruises.

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BOATRACS Offers Two-Way Satellite

Communications

BOATRACS offers a two-way, satellite-based data communications and positioning system which reportedly allows users to reach vessels hundreds of miles away at all times. Designed and manufactured by wireless communications provider QUALCOMM, the BOATRACS system provides software for use both on vessels and onshore. Message composi- tion, automatic message forwarding and retrieval and fast access to message and position history information are sup- ported by the office software, QTRACS.

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Station 12

Station 12 satellite telecommunica- tions network utilizes a series of satel- lites which allow customers to transmit data, voice, fax and telex through a series of different services, specifically designed for maritime application and substantial data. Services available from Station 12 include Inmarsat-A, B,

C, M and mini-M.

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TRW Acquires ICO Shares

TRW Inc. has acquired an equity interest in ICO Global Communications, under which TRW received 1.5 million

ICO shares, or approximately seven per- cent of ICO's current outstanding shares, with a face value of $150 million.

The two companies will grant each other

Inmarsat Sets Sights On Exploring New Territory

Inmarsat is reportedly ready to seek strategic commercial investors before seek- ing a flotation. Director General Warren

Grace said that the current investors, comprising one communications company from each of Inmarsat's 81 member states, will have the ability to sell stakes to out- side investors in the period between setting up a commercial structure at the beginning of 1999 and flotation two years later.

Inmarsat reportedly wants to develop the range of its communications systems, particularly the Horizons project for high speed data transmission to handheld per- sonal computers. Strategic investors could come from the companies bidding to devel- op space technology for the $2 billion pro- ject due to be operational by 2002. It will provide data at rates of 144KB/ second to lap top PCs and video conferencing; file downloading and Internet connections will be possible in remote areas.

According to Mr. Grace, there will be a 15 percent ceiling on share holdings and an intergovernmental organization will remain at the center to prevent the articles of the company being changed. Inmarsat will continue to provide global satellite dis- tress messaging services to the maritime and aviation industries and to relief orga- nizations working in inaccessible regions, he said. Inmarsat's existing signatory com- panies will become shareholders in the new company on levels equivalent to their exist- ing investments. They will be able to trade shares among themselves for a year before

Inmarsat becomes able to introduce strate- gic investors. The U.S., which holds a 22 percent stake in Inmarsat and whose sig- natory representative is Comsat Mobile

Communications, is understood to have been unhappy about the commercial advantages the body may have been able to take in the past. But Mr. Grace is confi- dent that the new structure would over- come concerns. Investment bank SBC

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SAILOR

SALES AND SERVICE AGENTS

ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS)

Radio-Holland Caribbean N.V. Curacao N.A.

Phone: ,599 94 612577 • Fax: ,599 94 612723

ARGENTINA

Oton R. Klein S.A. Buenos Aires

Phone: +541 760 0202 Fax: ,541 760 6389

AUSTRALIA

Rubin Marine - Arlarmon NSW

Phone: +61 2 94392333 - Fax: +61 2 94392278 a.m.i. sales O'Connor, Western Australia

Phone: +61 89 337 3266 • Fax: +61 89 314 2929

BAHRAIN

Aeradio Technical Services Mina Salman Port

Phone: +973 727790 Fax: +973 727811

BANGLADESH

Graphics Communications Ltd. Dhaka

Phone: +880 2 8922440 Fax: +880 2 883627

BELGIUM

Antwerp Marine Radio Company N.V. Antwerp

Phone: +32 3 202 0499 Fax: +32 3 202 0493

BRAZIL

O.L. Naval Ltda. Rio de Janeiro

Phone: +55 21 509 8667 Fax: +55 21 242 7934

BULGARIA

International Marine Technologies Ltd. Rousse

Phone: +359 82 228216 Fax: +359 82 279115

CANADA

Radio Holland (Canada) Ltd.. North Vancouver

Phone: +1604 293 2900 Fax: +1604 293 2930

CHILE

Serprotec LTDA Valparadiso (Deep Sea)

Phone: +56 32 232780 Fax: +56 32 212215

Simrad Chile • Santiago (Fishing)

Phone: +56 2 235 1068 Fax: +56 2 235 8732

CROATIA

BELAM-Zastupstvo i Servis Rijeka

Phone: +385 51 672343 Fax: +385 51 672179

CYPRUS

A. P. Hadjipieros Ltd. - Limassol

Phone: +357 5 345972 Fax: +357 5 345973

ECUADOR

Nautical del Ecuador Manta

Phone: +593 5 628900 • Fax: +593 5 628910

EGYPT

Suez Electronics Free Zone S.A.E.( Alexandria

Phone: +20 3 4806899 Fax: +20 3 48041%

Suez Electronics Engineering & Trading Ltd. - Cairo

Phone: +20 2 2742911 • Fax: +20 2 2745219

ESTONIA

A/SRSTA Tallinn

Phone: +372 6 312082 • Fax: +372 6 312082

FAROE ISLANDS

S.P. Radio ATS Denmark

Phone: +45 98180999 Fax: +45 98186717 (tor further information)

FINLAND

ASPO Systems OyEspoo

Phone: +358 9 422155 Fax: +358 9 422908

Navidec Oy Helsinki

Phone: +358 9 7001 7780 Fax: +358 9179 830

FRANCE

Geolink - Roguevaire

Phone: +33 4 42 32 99 00 Fax: +33 4 42 32 94 95

SDM Electronigue • Sartrouville Cedex

Phone: +33 1 39146833 Fax: +331 39133022

GERMANY

Elna GmbH Rellingen/Hamburg

Phone: +494101 30100 Fax: +494101 301214

GIBRALTAR

Electro Med Marina 8ay

Phone: +350 77077 Fax: +350 72051

GREECE

Marac Electronics S.A. Perama - Piraeus

Phone:+30 1 43 1 4361 Fax:+301 43 14234

GREENLAND

S.P. Radio A/S Denmark

Phone: +45 98180999 Fax: +45 98186717 (tor further information)

HOLLAND

Radio-Holland Marine B.V. • Rotterdam

Phone:+31 104283344 Fax:+31 104281498

Sailtron B.V. - Utrecht

Phone: +31 30 2944741 Fax: +31 30 2937642

HONG KONG

Radio Holland Group Kwai Chung N T.

Phone: +852 24239007 Fax: +852 24805898

Hoi Tung Communication & Navigation Co. Ltd

Phone: +852 25421262 Fax: +852 25431137

ICELAND

Radiomidun Ltd. Reykjavik

Phone:+354511 1010 Fax: +354511 1020

INDIA

Elcome Marine Services Pvt. Ltd. • New Bombay

Phone: +91 22 763 23 48 • Fax: +91 22 763 23 51

INDONESIA

PT Panorama Timur Jaya • Jakarta

Phone: +62 21 475 6788 Fax: +62 21 4751688

IRAN

Kaman Hormozgan Marine Engineering - Tehran

Phone: +98 21 222 8020 Fax: +98 21 222 4502

ISRAEL

Alhout-Yam Ltd. • Haifa

Phone: +972 4 86 20804 Fax: +972 4 8627404

ITALY

Compagnia Generale Telemar Roma

Phone: +39 6 3221800 Fax: +39 6 3240148

Generalmare est S.R.I. -Chiavari

Phone: +39 185 32 33 56 Fax: +39185 32 27 31

IVORY COAST

Optim Afrique - Abidjan

Phone: +225 251843 Fax: +225 257937

Nautical Afrique . Abidjan

Phone: +225 250136 • Fax: +225 250137

JAPAN

Kaigai Gijyutsu K.K. Yokohama

Phone: +81 45 6647318 Fax: +81 45 6647320

KOREA

Samyang Radio Co. Ltd. • Pusan

Phone: +8251413 5000 Fax: +82 51 413 5002

KUWAIT

Elcome International. Safat

Phone: +965 2406822 Fax: +965 2406833

Commercial Co-Ordination Centre W.L.L. Safat

Phone: +965 2462347 Fax: +965 2454350

LATVIA/LITHUANIA

Transas Baltia Riga

Phone: +371 7286585 - Fax: +371 7821202

MALTA Medcomms Ltd. - Gzira

Phone: +356335521 Fax: +356310820

MEXICO

Nautica, S.A. de C.V. • Mexico D.F.

Phone: +52 5 6519740 Fax: +52 5 6512825

MOROCCO

Soremar Casablanca

Phone: +212 2 442802 Fax: +212 2 305385

NEW ZEALAND

Electronic Navigation Ltd. • Auckland

Phone: +64 9 3735595 Fax: +64 9 3795655

Wrights Ltd. Wellington

Phone: +64 4 568 8975 Fax: +64 4 568 8361

NIGERIA

Netarcomms Nigeria Ltd.. Lagos State

Phone: +234 1 871662 Fax: +234 1 264 6083

NORWAY

AEG Norge A/S-Oslo

Phone: +47 22 89 78 00 Fax: +47 22 89 78 04

PAKISTAN

International Aeradio Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi

Phone: +92 21 5837800 Fax: +92 21 5870331

PANAMA

Proveedora Tecnica, S.A. Panama

Phone: +507 227 3533 Fax: +507 2271053

PHILIPPINES

Radio Holland B.V. (Philippines) Inc. - Manila

Phone: +63 2 527 5865 - Fax: +63 2 527 5866

POLAND

EPA Ltd. • Szczecin

Phone: +48 914 874 885 Fax: +48 914 875 014

PORTUGAL

Nautel - Electronica Maritima. Lda. • Lisbon

Phone: +351 1 39 20 940 Fax: +351 1 39 20 949

DATAR

Eastern Technical Services Co. Doha

Phone: +974 477412 Fax: +974 478282

RUMANIA

Imsat Maritime SA Constanta Constanta

Phone: +4041 639038 Fax: +40 41 674356

RUSSIA

Transas Marine Ltd. • St. Petersburg

Phone: +7812 567 2090 Fax: +7 812 5671901

Moretron Ltd. Murmansk

Phone: +47 8510144 Fax: +478510144

SAUDI ARABIA

Key Communication Development Ltd. • Dammam

Phone: +966 3 8336940 Fax: +966 3 8330728

SENEGAL

Optim Senegal • Dakar

Phone: +221 8234930 Fax: +221 8229676

SINGAPORE

Radio-Holland BV Singapore

Phone: +65 8622218 Fax: +65 8622430

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Maritime Electronics (Pty.) Ltd. Cape Town

Phone: +27 21 551 3204 Fax: +27 21 551 3206

Radio Holland Group Paarden Eiland (Cape Town)

Phone: +27 21 511 0864 Fax: +27 21 511 7577

SPAIN

Nautical. San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid)

Phone: +34 I 6549411 • Fax: +34 1 6549600

SWEDEN

Ring Marine Communication AB • Askim/Goteborg

Phone: +46 31 668400 • Fax: +46 31 683660

Racal Svenska AB Vastra Frolunda (Goteborg)

Phone: +4631 292100 • Fax: +46 31 292109

TAIWAN R.O.C.

Unimax Electric & Co.. Ltd. Kaohsiung

Phone: +886 7 815 9775 Fax: +886 7 815 1 775

TUNISIA

Alcatel Tunisie - Tunis Cedex

Phone: +2161 717177 Fax: +216 1 719888

TURKEY

Elektro-Deniz Ltd. - Istanbul

Phone: +90 216 392 77 29 Fax: +90 216 392 8018

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Elcome International L.L.C. Dubai

Phone: +971 4 342333 Fax: +971 4 342465

UNITED KINGDOM

Ships Electronic Services Ltd. - Rochester (Kent)

Phone: +44 1634 295500 Fax: +44 1634 295536

URUGUAY

Electromaritima Uruguaya Ltda. • Montevideo

Phone: +598 2 924 77 89 Fax: +598 2 924 71 38

USA

Radio-Holland USA, B.V. - Houston (Texas)

Phone: +1 713 943 3325 Fax: +1 713 943 3802

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