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Wth COMSAT Maritime Services, every signal comes in loud and clear.

Computer to computer. Packet data networks. News and weather reports. Electronic mail. Radio and television. Even credit card telephones and automatic banking services.

Only COMSAT Maritime Services can give you shipboard communications that rivals anything available on shore.

For both business and pleasure.

For business, any ship equipped with an INMARSAT ship earth station can send and receive electronic mail, connect to a packet data network (at speeds up to 9600 bps), and commu- nicate with on shore computers. Telex and facsimile messages can be sent and received. Ships can receive up-to-the- minute weather information, including digital graphics.

For pleasure, COMSAT

Maritime Services can connect on board telephones with almost any telephone in the world, send daily news reports, and provide live radio and television programming.

Even electronic banking and credit card phone services are available.

With the communications package that only COMSAT Maritime Services can provide, it will be smoother sailing for you, your crew, and your passengers.

For more information call Bob Eichberg,

Vice President, at 1-800-424-9152, or write: flCOMSAT %' Maritime Services 22250 COMSAT Drive Clarksburg, MD 20871.