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…
GX projections keep Inmarsat bandwagon rolling along
Last week’s Inmarsat Investor Day has received reasonably positive reviews from analysts and observers, with the headlines taken by the deal with CISCO to build the ‘enablement platform’ for GX (which may…
Strange days indeed…
It’s been an exciting seven days on MaritimeInsight, though it’s taken a while to get the words to the page. To start with, we finally learned what’s eating Jim Dodez and it…
Marlink: Inmarsat Global Xpress part of the mix – but not at any price
As DigitalShip’s Rob O’Dwyer pointed out at the Marlink-Astrium SMM press conference, without Marlink, Inmarsat is going to struggle to sell its Global Xpress VSAT offering. But as O’Dwyer also noted, Marlink…
Staying in the game is more important than the shape of the ball
Inmarsat was far from the only game in town at the recent SMM widget-fest. Its partners and suppliers were also keen to have their say and reinforce the theory that this will…
Speak loudly (and carry a small stick)
Inmarsat’s ‘Maritime Update’ at SMM was clearly for the benefit of partners but there were broader messages too, aimed at bolstering its position against the emerging competition in the maritime space. Hence…
Now that I have your attention…
It was a typically bravura performance. Inmarsat gathered 100 or so of its close friends – DPs, SPs and interested parties – to a ‘Maritime Update’ at SMM 2012, in the process…
The more things change…
The future is already here, sci-fi sage William Gibson once mused, it just isn’t very well distributed yet. He might just have been talking about maritime satcoms if such a subject wasn’t…
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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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