Middle East Broadcasting (MBC), Arabic language television broadcaster, has upgraded its Inmarsat GAN Global Area Network (GAN) portfolio to 17 terminals, supporting the launch of the station’s new Al-Arabiya 24-hour Arabic news channel.
Allowing MBC and Al-Arabiyah’s journalists to report from remote locations or from trouble spots where telecommunications facilities are not available or simply not reliable enough, the GAN high-speed service gives ‘on demand’ access to bandwidth across 98 percent of the world’s landmass.
The mobile ISDN service supports 64 kbit/s access to networks, email and Internet services and allows high quality voice, fax and ‘store and forward’ video or live videoconferencing. Some 17 GAN terminals were being dispatched to MBC’s and Al-Arabiyah’s reporters in Mali, Jordan, Turkey, Palestine, Kuwait and Iraq.
Inmarsat Ltd owns and operates a 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.
At the end of June 2002, approximately 250,000 terminals were registered to access Inmarsat Ltd’s services. Inmarsat Ltd is a subsidiary of Inmarsat Ventures plc. — (menareport.com)
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