Inmarsat Share Discussion Threads

[mali7] 09/11/2005 15:28

Results out on 23/11/05.

Expected: Results to be impressive. High cash paid back to shareholders - high yeild, also heard of a possible special dividend.

DYOR and time will tell. Has been tipped buy quite few as a strong buy! (Can't say exactly who but DYOR!)

[eipgam] 09/11/2005 13:15

I'm new here, in yesterday @ 306.5.... what is expected on 23/11?

[whipround] 09/11/2005 11:21

10p a day until the 23rd November would be nice.

[andrbea] 09/11/2005 08:49

Inmarsat Launches Its Second Broadband Satellite

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For in-flight purposes, OnAir, the joint venture of Airbus, SITA, and the former Tenzing will deploy using this service late next year to bring roughly 500 Kbps to 2 Mbps of symmetrical, guaranteed-per-plane service. The aeronautical service on the satellites will come online later than terrestrial. And the launch next year of the third satellite means that early service will focus on European overwater routes to the US and overland to Asia and down south to other continents. "

[andrbea] 09/11/2005 08:00

"The successful launch of the second I-4 satellite means that Inmarsat now has the world's most sophisticated commercial network for mobile voice and data services," said Andrew Sukawaty, CEO and chairman of Inmarsat.

The satellite will now begin deployment and testing, with a number of key milestones ahead before being fully-deployed in geostationary orbit, 35,786 kilometres (22,237 miles) above the Equator, over northern Brazil.

The Inmarsat-4 satellite is designed to provide high-speed mobile service to people throughout the Americas. It is one in a series of satellites designed to support the Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN).

[andrbea] 09/11/2005 07:48

Inmarsat rose 9.75p to 309.75p after the group successfully launched its second I-4 satellite. Yesterday afternoon Inmarsat fired the satellite, which is the size of a double-decker bus, in orbit from the Pacific Ocean. It will cover North, Central and South America for the company, which makes its money by providing mobile satellite communications.

[whipround] 08/11/2005 18:13

"The successful launch of the second I-4 satellite means that Inmarsat now has the world's most sophisticated commercial network for mobile voice and data services," said Andrew Sukawaty, CEO and chairman of Inmarsat.

"It will support an unprecedented evolution of our services - more than doubling the bandwidth available to our mobile users. It marks the beginning of a new era for Inmarsat, in which we expect to roll out a new range of global mobile services to government, aid, and enterprise users."

The satellite will now begin deployment and testing, with a number of key milestones ahead before being fully-deployed in geostationary orbit, 35,786 kilometres (22,237 miles) above the Equator, over northern Brazil.

The first Inmarsat-4 was launched in March 2005 and is already in commercial service above the Indian Ocean at 64ºE. Together, the two I-4 satellites will be able to deliver Inmarsat's new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service to 85 per cent of the world's landmass.

BGAN is an IP and circuit-switched service that will offer voice telephony and a sophisticated range of high-bandwidth services, including internet access, videoconferencing, LAN and other data services, at speeds up to half a megabit per second.

Inmarsat's I-4 satellites are built by EADS Astrium and are part of an eight-year, US$1.5 billion development of Inmarsat's next-generation satellite network. They are 60 times more powerful and have 20 times more capacity than their predecessors, the Inmarsat-3 satellites.

[scuch] 08/11/2005 15:28

lol don't answer that :-)

[scuch] 08/11/2005 15:14

How come the nice little rise?

[whipround] 08/11/2005 14:25

All looking good for Nov 23rd

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 14:18

in late 2006, more world dominance...

The Atlantic Ocean satellite will serve the Americas when service is turned on in April, complementing an identical bird parked over the Indian Ocean that will service Europe, Africa and most of the Far East, when it comes online Nov. 16. (If all goes as planned, Inmarsat will launch a third satellite over the Pacific in late 2006.)



by the time eutelsat eventually float on Eurnonext, isat will rule the world.. :-)

[whipround] 08/11/2005 14:13

Share price launch also looks good.

[whipround] 08/11/2005 14:12

Launch looked good on the internet though my pc had a few streaming problems.

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 12:27

that's good news then

launch update



The two satellites will support the London-based sat-com Inmarsat company's global broadband network, BGan.

Their onboard technology is designed to allow people to set up virtual offices anywhere around the world via high-speed broadband connections and new 3G phone technology.

The satellites offer "broadband for a mobile planet", says Inmarsat chief operating officer Michael Butler. Those set to benefit include business travellers, disaster relief workers and journalists.

[whipround] 08/11/2005 12:05

If that 350,000 is active terminals then thats a huge leap. At half year stage they said there were 196,600 active terminals.

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 10:11

busy day on the day job, w-r, so hands tied...
you can check if you like.

[whipround] 08/11/2005 09:26

Andrbea

Any idea how 350,000 compares with figures published in interims? Or do you want me to check?

Regards

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 07:59

"Stratos has already received orders from distribution partners for more
than 7,500 BGAN SIM (subscriber identity module) cards that will be packaged
with BGAN terminals and sold to customers once service launches. The BGAN SIM
card is inserted in the BGAN terminal and holds all of the unique data about
the BGAN user, including phone number and preferences. The demand for BGAN
SIMs from Stratos' distribution channel is a leading indicator of their
interest in selling BGAN service and the demand they anticipate in the market."

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 07:58

Inmarsat is a satellite wholesaler with an estimated 350,000 terminals in use globally, the spokeswoman said.

The satellite launch can be viewed at www.inmarsat.com.

[andrbea] 08/11/2005 07:29

daily telegraph

[andrbea] 07/11/2005 15:07

launch date: tomorrow

[andrbea] 07/11/2005 15:06

The world's largest provider of Inmarsat mobile satellite services, Stratos Global, has announced that it is taking orders from distribution partners and customers for Inmarsat's BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) service.