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Communication Technology sentative on the 20-strong team — and shortly afterwards was made chair of the

Information Management sub-group.

To illustrate the enormity of the task ahead for the ITU project team, BT recently carried out a study showing that the majority of the world's telecoms will not be functional. It is predicted, for

Africa's telecoms industry will be oper- ational in the year 2000.

A major success for the task force has been the first round of inter-carrier con- nectivity tests whereby Telia (of Swe- den), Deutsche Telekom (Germany) and

Hong Kong Telecom connected their captive environments and rolled them was successfully exchanged including backwards and forwards between 1999 and 2000 with the seven-hour time dif- ference.

There has been teamwork since last

June when the world's three major satel- lite carriers — Inmarsat, Eutelsat and

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Arguably, the greatest of her problems has been to find a hotel in London which had rooms to accommodate 30 staff for the three nights of the transition period. (She's leaving nothing to chance: even though all Inmarsat systems should have been cleared as Year 2000-compliant long before then; there's no guarantee that external systems such as London's transport network or the national grid will be operating smoothly.) As far back as October 1998, every hotel room in central London was fully booked. Per- haps you are better off at sea. "But what we've demonstrated at

Inmarsat," Govier said, "is that if you've fully verified each of your systems — everything from satellite control to the staff payroll system — by December 31, 1999, you should be able to wake up on

New Year's Day in the year 2000 and find that life as you knew it has not come to a crashing end."

Thrane & Thrane Signs

Contract with ICO

Thrane & Thrane A/S, Danish manu- facturer of satellite communication equipment, signed a contract with ICO

Global Communications, for the devel- opment and supply of terminals for remote businesses and residential hous- ing. The remote business terminal will include the display and keyboard, DC supplies, and an antenna located up to 262 ft. (80 m) away. Thrane & Thrane plans to develop and market a maritime terminal for merchant ships, yachts and fishing boats.

Globe Wireless, Marinet Meld

Marinet Systems and Globe Wireless have combined to form a full service marine communications company offer- ing service in the satellite and high fre- quency radio industry including a cost effective routing e-mail and data trans- fer capability.

Together, the new venture will provide international services in 16 countries to the more than 2,000 vessels already contracted by each respective company.

Veripos Institutes DGPS

Network In The Gulf

Veripos, which keeps a high-accuracy

Differential GPS (DGPS) network across northern Europe has established a comparable service in the Gulf of

Mexico based on both HF and Inmarsat- delivered signal correction facilities.

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