Can we make crew internet access work? Yes we can!
Reminding ourselves just how few seafarers have anything like real internet access is good means of self-flagellation and of remembering there are many people less fortunate than ourselves. But I think it’s…
Reinventing the maritime IT department – and why it can’t come soon enough
The trip to Athens and the DigitalShip conference was time well spent. Not only was the affair free from score-settling and rabble rousing, it had a practical programme reflecting the state of…
Further on up the road…
Do we spend enough time thinking about the future? I’m not just talking about the next quarter or the next six months, but the really big picture, the kind of blue sky…
Ku or Ka? Wide or Narrow? Clarity or… More on Intelsat’s maritime ambitions
In the second part of my interview with James Collett, Director Mobility Services at Intelsat, we talk more on coverage, capacity and confidence from the buyer’s and user’s viewpoints. There is also…
Epic stuff – James Collett on Intelsat, Inmarsat and what really matters in maritime
To leafy Chiswick in West London and the offices of Intelsat for a wide-ranging conversation with James Collett, late of Inmarsat and now Director of Mobility Services at Intelsat, charged with building…
What happens in Rotterdam, Singapore, Athens, Houston…
The publication last week of ShipServ’s annual survey on the use of e-commerce and social media in shipping immediately put me in mind of one of my favourite pieces of internet video.…
Inmarsat signs SingTel as first VAR for Global Xpress in Asia
The following has just been released by Inmarsat – analysis follows but news waits for no man… SINGTEL SIGNS INMARSAT GLOBAL XPRESS® VALUE ADDED RESELLER AGREEMENT Singapore Telecommunications signs with Inmarsat for …
The end of history redux
I have kept being drawn back to a post on analyst Tim Farrar’s blog, entitled ‘MSS – the end of history?’ but I wasn’t sure why. It couldn’t just be because it…
Why a complicated business needs a simple plan
When Frank Coles, Inmarsat Maritime CEO stood up at the satellite communications provider’s recent investor day, he had probably the toughest task and in some ways the simplest too. Tough because the…
Keep your rocket science simple – and your satellites on schedule
The news reported on Satlaunch 19 October that Inmarsat’s GX satellites, the I-5s could be delayed until late 2013 could prove an embarrassing knock to the GX programme, if hardly fatal. No…
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Neville Smith
Maritime Media Consultant to a roster of international shipping industry clients. Former maritime journalist with 16 years’ experience reporting the shipping and marine insurance markets and former Deputy Editor at Lloyd’s List, I assist clients with matching their communication needs to publications and media channels that gain them their desired level of exposure.
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