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Iridium Targets Merchant Seamen With Easy Calling Packages
Arlington - Apr 23, 2002 Iridium Satellite LLC, the only provider of global voice and data communications, today announced the availability of affordable crew calling services for the maritime industry. In response to customer demand for more cost effective and efficient ways to manage on-ship call operations, Iridium's crew calling solution simultaneously supports pre-paid calling for individual crew members and subscription services for a vessel's official communications. The new service simplifies the burdensome task of managing fleet communications costs.< Iridium's new crew calling program allows vessel owners and operators to provide both official and personal communications from a single phone. Vessel operators can provide pre-paid scratch cards to individual crew members to allow for personal calling, while eliminating the arduous process of tracking those costs. For official business, the captain and crew can use the same phone for subscription-based calls. This eliminates the need to manually process complicated bills or to purchase additional equipment to support the two functions. "By reducing the administrative burden of monitoring each crew member's calls, this new platform of services will help shipping businesses cut back on operating expenditures while providing an affordable convenience that benefits crew morale and productivity," said Charlene King, executive vice president for marketing and channel management at Iridium Satellite. "While prohibitive costs and complicated pricing schemes have limited the use of other satellite systems for crew calling purposes, Iridium's affordable, flat-rate pricing makes it ideal for crew morale programs." The crew calling plan offers the same global, flat rate pricing that is the basis for all of Iridium Satellite's services. With no roaming or zone charges and some of the lowest prices available for satellite calls, the crew calling plan delivers one of the most affordable and flexible communications options available to the maritime market today, and the only one with truly global coverage. Beginning immediately, Iridium will offer the new crew calling services through its global network of service providers. The initial service providers include GloCall, Stratos, European Datacomm, Roadpost, Global Plus, Global Satellite, Infosat, Marconi, World Communications Center, GeoLink, Fibertel, Marlink and AST. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Iridium Satellite SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Satellite Constellation - multiple satellite deployments in LEO and Beyond
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Tests Iridium Based Satellite Tracking System
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 20, 2005The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has begun testing a maritime safety system for automatic vessel monitoring and emergency alerting at sea using the Iridium satellite network. |
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