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Satellite Communications

WESTERN BRANCH METALS. INC.

Western Branch Metals

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Peter Goldsmith, Inmarsat that had been available before.

Another new product to have had great success is Inmarsat phone, the portable personal com munications system for business travelers. But this move into lane mobile services has not been at the expense of the maritime market in favor of land mobile services, as

Andy Fuller, manager of the mar- itime department at Inmarsat, explains: "Inmarsat's continuing commitment to the GMDSS for high quality safety communica- tions means that we are develop- ing and introducing a number of new products and services such as

Inmarsat E and others related to the GMDSS. These initiatives are a result of what our maritime cus- tomers tell us they need."

The Inmarsat E system com- plies fully with the Global

Maritime Distress and Safety

System (GMDSS), covers virtually all the world's ocean areas, is high- ly reliable for both SOLAS and non-SOLAS vessels and is free of charge to users. It was developed jointly by the German government, the European Space Agency, manu- facturers Nortel Dasa, Siemens and MBB and Inmarsat.

Combined Technologies

Inmarsat E combines the posi- tion determination of the Global

Positioning System (GPS) or

GLONASS satellite navigation technology with the geostationary satellite technology of the (Continued on page 131)

Around the country and around the world, the marine industry turns to Western

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Hearer, Faster & Cheaper,,. Distress Alerting Via Inmarsat E

By Ruth Ling, Inmarsat direct dial telephone to telex, data the most recent of these is tress alerting system than ar

More than 40,000 Inmarsat ter- and e-mail. Inmarsat, the interna- Inmarsat E (the emergency posi- minals, fitted to vessels of all types tional mobile satellite organiza- tion indicating radio beacon, or worldwide, provide communica- tion, is continuously developing EPIRB), designed to be a faster, tions via satellite ranging from and introducing new services, and more reliable and more precise dis-

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