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Satellite Communications

SERVICE PROVIDERS

AMSC

In addition to standard satellite telephone service, American

Mobile Satellite Corporation (AMSC) offers SKYCELL Satellite

Dispatch Service — a satellite- delivered digital voice dispatch service. Customers can reportedly create multiple talk groups within any one of the SKYCELL Service ultra-wide area talk zones. The

SKYCELL Service satellite cover- age area includes virtually all of

North and Central America and surrounding waters, from Alaska, down to the Panama Canal and throughout the Caribbean.

For more information on AMSC

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AT&T

AT&T Mobile Satellite Services delivers quality, reliable shore-to- ship, and now ship-to-shore

Inmarsat services. With the addi- tion of AT&T Inmarsat ship-to- shore, AT&T Mobile Satellite

Services offers a full range of mar- itime services. AT&T Inmarsat A,

B. and M ship-to-shore and shore- to-ship, along with AT&T High

Seas Direct, will reportedly pro- vide a clear, cost-effective connec- tion anywhere on land or at sea.

For more information on AT&T

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I British Telecom

BT Inmarsat provides satellite

I communications coverage for the

Atlantic Ocean Region. BT has joined forces with Norway's

Telenor and Singapore Telecom, creating an alliance which offers direct dial telephone, fax and data services to more than 200 coun- tries worldwide. BT SatMail is a new managed mailbox service which gives ships access to the

Internet and X.400 networks for e- mail messaging and other informa- tion services. Other BT Inmarsat

Services include: BT Inmarsat A;

BT Inmarsat A High Speed Data;

BT B-Sat; BT M-Sat; and BT C-

SAT.

For more information on BT Inmarsat

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IDB Mobile Communications

IDB Mobile Communications is a global provider of Inmarsat A, B and C voice, fax, data and telex services. IDB offers global

Inmarsat A, B, M and S voice, telex, fax and data services. IDB has introduced Oceancall North

American telephones services which promise to serve maritime users with upto 80 percent of sat- com communications..

For more information on IDB

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Inmarsat

Inmarsat-3 FI, the first of

Inmarsat's new generation of com- mercial mobile communications satellites, entered service on May 11. The satellite will serve the

Indian Ocean Region at 64 degrees east longitude. It is reportedly eight times more powerful than its predecessor, the Inmarsat F2

Indian Ocean Region satellite, which now becomes a spare for that region. Inmarsat's third gen- eration, to eventually comprise five satellites by the third quarter of 1997, will reportedly expand the availability and usefulness of glob- al mobile satellite communications by making possible lower cost com- munications services operating with even smaller, more economi- cal mobile and transportable ter- minals.

For more information on Inmarsat

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KDD

KDD will complete its global cov- erage of total Inmarsat services by the end of 1996, when its Inmarsat

A and C services are scheduled to be available in all four ocean regions. Customers will reportedly be able to access KDD's land earth station anywhere on the world's oceans by entering ID number "03" for Inmarsat-A service. KDD's

Inmarsat B and M services can already be used in any ocean region via ID number "003."

Currently, KDD provides Inmarsat

A service for three ocean regions (POR, IOR and AOR-W), and

Inmarsat C service for two ocean regions (POR and IOR).

For more information on KDD

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Maritime Cellular Network

Maritime Cellular Tele-Network

Inc. (MCN), a subsidiary of ICG

Satellite Services, provides digital

JOHN DEERE ENGINES

ARE COMIN' ON STRONG

IN CRANE BARGES. "Very little maintenance."

Joel Smith, of R&D Maintenance Service operates a new 54' x 160' crane barge with two Deere gen-set engines. He also uses two Deere powered compressors elsewhere in the project. 'To my knowledge we haven't had to do anything but routine service on any of them." "Seven years old and the engines run with no problems."

Smith likes the way even older Deere engines keep delivering the performance he needs. "The compressor engines have been in service for 7 years now, and they still work like the new ones, they just keep running. They give us the dependability we need on projects like ours." , Marine

Engines

John Deere engines from 70-300 hp (52-224 kW) are being used on more workboats of all kinds every day. Talk to the people who use them and find out why. 1996

Circle 221 on Reader Service Card phone, fax and data transmissions using satellite communications for commercial and private vessels in

North and Central America, the

Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii.

The mobile satellite system report- edly provides customers with remote communications from more than 600 miles away.

For more information

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ORBCOMM

ORBCOMM is reportedly the world's first low-earth orbit satel- lite commuications service. The company offers a data communica- tions and digital messaging service to the maritime industry using small, low-cost, powerfugal com- munications with omni-directional antennas.

For more information on ORBCOMM

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PTT Telecom

Station 12 is the global marine satellite communications provider of PTT Telecom Netherlands. Its portfolio consists of Inmarsat

A,B,C,D and M services, as well as radio services of Scheveningen

Radio. Via land earth stations in

Barum, the Netherlands, and

Yamaguchi, Japan, Station 12 offers its Inmarsat services world- wide. Early in 1997, Station 12 will introduce the world's first

Inmarsat D+ service. This technol- ogy is reportedly suitable for global two-way services for short mes- sages, tracking and tracing, and monitoring and control.

For more information on PTT Telecom

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Saudi Telecom International

Under Telephone Expansion

Project-6 (TEP 6), Saudi Arabia has awarded NERA (a subcontrac- tor of AT&T) the upgrading of the existing Inmarsat land earth sta- tion, operating in IOR, and imple- mentation of a new Inmarsat land earth station in AOR-E region for the introduction of Inmarsat

Standard A,B,C,M and Mini-M ser- vices in the fourth quarter of 1996.

For more information

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Singapore Telecom

Singapore Sentosa Land Earth

Station provides the full range of

Inmarsat A,B,C and M services in the Pacific Ocean Region (POR) and Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

New services available include

Sentosa Mail-65, a global electron- ic mail system for both ship-to- shore and shore-to-ship communi- cations. Sentosa Mail-65 users are able to send and receive files and messages via Internet mail, X.400 mail and telex. The Intouch card is a prepaid calling card service which can reportedly be used to 71