Abu
Dhabi TV reports from sea via Inmarsat
Posted: 25 March 2003
Media reporting on regional manoeuvres supported by Inmarsat
land and maritime satellite links: journalists use Inmarsat from
US Navy ships
Dubai — Media reporting on the military
movements in the Middle East are depending on Inmarsat maritime
and land based satellite services to ensure up to the minute and
objective accounts are available to a global audience, including
journalists working with Middle Eastern broadcaster Abu Dhabi Television.
“This is what I am using to file my stories from sea. We
are able to access the Internet to file stories and share information
at virtually any time thanks to Inmarsat maritime services,”
said Abu Dhabi TV journalist Abdullah Saafin, writing via Internet
Chat from a US Navy ship on patrol in the Gulf.
“I can stay in touch with the station and keep updated with
every move in the region, as well as contribute to our pool of knowledge.
This means that the news station stays totally up to date.”
Using services such as Inmarsat B, contributing journalists are
able to share a ‘knowledge pool’ of up to the minute
information, and therefore can table more informed questions and
investigations.
“If something happens at the UN, we are aware of it and can
then reflect this information in the approach we are taking out
here at sea. The result is that we are more informed with more up-to-date
resources, and we can support a better quality of informed journalism,”
comments Saafin. Satellite technology is enabling the media to make
more informed, and greater in-depth analysis of the events, as they
happen, wherever these reporters might be.
Inmarsat B is a global communications system that extends modern
digital technology to the mobile satellite communications field.
Inmarsat B offers very high quality voice, telex, medium and high-speed
data (64 kbps), and fax, for much less than the traditional Inmarsat
A service. Inmarsat B appeals particularly to high volume users
of voice and data.
Typical industries that use the Inmarsat B service are offshore
exploration, cruise ships, deep-sea shipping and government agencies.
Media applications for Inmarsat services are contributing to the
very high current levels of demand for satellite bandwidth being
seen in the Middle East region. Network management specialists at
Inmarsat and at Inmarsat Land Earth Station Operators (LESOs) are
seeing very high peaks in regional demand from the region, as journalists
from around the world file reports and stay in touch using Inmarsat’s
maritime and GAN services as well as the high speed Regional BGAN
service.
“Inmarsat is servicing high demand from media working around
the entire region, and we are working hard to ensure that services
are operating to the highest efficiency,” said Inmarsat regional
director Samer Halawi. “Not just media, but also aid agencies
and other NGOs are using Inmarsat services to support the requirement
for reliable communications anywhere in the region.”
About Inmarsat Limited
- Inmarsat Ltd owns and operates a unique global mobile satellite
network and delivers its communications solutions through a worldwide
network of approximately 260 distributors and other service providers
operating in over 80 countries to end users in the maritime, land
and aeronautical sectors.
- Inmarsat Ltd has a portfolio of mobile satellite solutions,
including voice, fax, intranet and Internet access and other data
services.
- Inmarsat Ltd has more than 22 years of experience in designing,
implementing and operating satellite networks.
- At the end of June 2002, approximately 250,000 terminals were
registered to access Inmarsat Ltd’s services.
- Inmarsat Ltd is also supported by partners in the fields of
equipment manufacture, software provision and systems integration.
- Inmarsat Ltd is a subsidiary of Inmarsat Ventures plc.
- Inmarsat is the exclusive global partner of the FIA World Rally
Championship.
For more information see www.inmarsat.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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