Old words for old (and new) problems
It’s good to see a modern maritime journal digging out the language of (almost) another age to describe the current one. This works fine except when the sub-editors are younger than you…
June 1, 2012When a Tom Hanks movie just isn’t enough
Proving there is absolutely no-one like an American for a highly developed sense of bathos, it seems that more than half the crew of Maersk Alabama have decided that resisting pirates, being…
May 31, 2012Intelsat unveils IPO plans – yes you read it here too
OK so we’re hardly the first with this – and frankly not the most insightful at this stage but here’s some news the market has been expecting – . We’ll come back…
May 22, 2012LOLCATS good: wonky self-publishing, not so much
The internet, I think we can agree is a marvellous thing. It has transformed our lives, allowing us to interact with handheld devices rather than talk to boring people and to access…
May 13, 2012Frank Coles interview Part 3 – Inmarsat will compete to survive
So far Inmarsat Maritime president Frank Coles has put up a robust defence of the company’s strategy and an informed one too. His time served at SP GlobeWireless, where he sold Inmarsat…
May 9, 2012Frank Coles Interview Part 2 – the move into VSAT in context
Perhaps because it is a company that made its reputation in provision of L-Band services, Inmarsat appeared slow to spot the move towards maritime VSAT. It was not alone – I remember…
May 7, 2012Inmarsat’s Frank Coles on value, competition and fiery pitchforks
To say that Inmarsat is in the spotlight at present is an understatement. Successive waves of vested commercial interest, personal opinions and a dose of righteous Greek indignation have been washing around…
May 4, 2012Straight talk and tough love on ECDIS
I write a monthly column for BIMCO on similar subjects to those covered here. Every now and again I throw all the toys out of my pram and usually encounter a polite…
April 30, 2012Inmarsat finally gets a right to reply…
Interesting to read Frank Coles, president of Inmarsat Maritime making a strong riposte to the AMMITEC letter in the latest issue of DigitalShip (http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/2006/news.aspl), which along with MaritimeInsight has at least provided…
April 26, 2012More positional play pre-Global Xpress
While a few lone voices in the satellite communications community seem determined to spend the majority of their time bemoaning the evolution of systems and services, others are preparing and positioning for…
April 13, 2012
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