Satellite Phone Forum

[cable77]

BGAN is a new wholesale high speed satellite broadband data/voice service offered by [url=broadband.inmarsat.com]Inmarsat[/url]to almost anywhere around the globe except the Pacific area (so Western Australia is covered but not Sydney) from two satellites. The Pacific service will commence via a third satellite during 2007.

I wonder whether Internode might be planning to offer worldwide remote satellite data/voice connectivity via the BGAN service?

It looks like iPass will be offering the service soon (with a huge mark up?)www.govtech.net/digitalc...ry.php?id=103611. Internode could go via iPass or perhaps do a direct deal with Inmarsat. It is hard to find pricing but a company in the US appears to offer BGAN data packages for US$8.90/MB @ 144kbps. Expensive... but half the price that Telstra charges for GPRS data and much faster.

There are several BGAN terminals available - they cost roughly A$900 and are about the size of a notebook PC. The more flexible terminals allow a wireless LAN with internet connectivity to be quickly deployed virtually anywhere on the planet.