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Communication Technology facturer to come up with a fix for this problem and this has now been achieved," explains Justin Lewis, leader of Inmarsat's satellite operations support group. In November, his colleague Aldo

Novelli, supervisor of ground opera- tions, began organizing a 'new boards for old' program to install the upgraded hardware in all the affected sites. The work will be completed in plenty of time to beat this particular pre-millennium deadline. "Although the GPS rollover date is not a year 2000 problem as such, it does give a foretaste of the sort of problems which will occur at the centu- ry's end as the clocks in computer equip- ment jump backwards in time rather than smoothly going forwards," said

Lewis. "In the case of GPS, systems might jump from August 21, 1999 to

January 6, 1980 (the start of GPS 'week zero'). In the year 2000 case, systems could jump from December 31, 1999 to

January 1, 1900.

Inmarsat and the ITU

Another area in which Inmarsat has been busy is raising awareness of the millennium bug problem among the telecoms communities through the ITU.

Last March, Govier was invited to take up a place on the ITU's Year 2000 task force — the only satellite carrier repre-

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