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Inmarsat: see Communications Satellite Corporation Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), organization incorporated (1962) by an act of Congress to establish a commercial system of international communications using artificial satellites. Although government sponsored, it was financed by a public stock issue. ..... Click the link for more information. ; communications satellite communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to ..... Click the link for more information. . Inmarsat(Inmarsat plc, London, www.inmarsat.com) A satellite communications company that provides voice and data services to the maritime, transportation and aeronautics markets as well as providing general Internet access from any location on the globe with its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). Formerly International Maritime Satellite, Inmarsat was founded in 1979 as a British intergovernmental organization (IGO) to serve the maritime industry. It became a private company in 1999 and a public company in 2005. See BGAN. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Agreement with Inmarsat to Give Workers Wireless Broadband Virtually Anywhere Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, and ViaSat Inc. Telenor's approval to offer the service throughout the United States follows last month's expansion of the new global voice and broadband data service by satellite operator Inmarsat to cover the Americas. |
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