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Luxury Yachts Get Intelsat Broadband |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
We're sure there's nothing more frustrating to the dotcom
millionaire tycoon than being stuck on your luxury Yacht without a decent Net
connection.
Don't lose too much sleep over it though. You can be safe in
the knowledge they can now get broadband access from anywhere in the Mediterranean, Europe, UK, Caribbean, Middle East and USA, via Station 53's
Intelsat broadband service.
You can sleep even more peacefully knowing they also get
free VoIP calls to the US
thrown in for good measure.
The service uses Station 53's iDirect platform and takes
what was the best offering you could get at sea (Inmarsat's 64Kbs) and blows it
clean out of the water with a 2.5Mbps shore to vessel download speed and
512kbps for vessel to shore upload speed.
Naturally, the data transfer allowance is unlimited and QoS
is assured, as is 24/7 customer support.
The nifty box your service provider offers has 802.11 Wi-Fi,
VoIP and QoS built right in and you can get marine satellite antenna systems,
installation, service and monitoring of satellite Internet and VoIP networks
all from the same place.
Must cost a fortune? Maybe not, the press release from
Station 53 says their customers can forget about those "$6.00/minute telephone
calls and per megabit Internet charges" and replace them with "pennies per
minute telephone calls and broadband Internet with no per minute or bandwidth
limitations".
"You will love our service and our rates," it says in the
release.
Naturally, the company says "You will love our service and
our rates". When they say you, they probably don't actually mean you. They mean
those rich people who can afford to spend their time cruising the Mediterranean.
You? You will just have to get by with your GPRS.
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